Rajeev Ram

Ram was born to Raghav and Sushma Ram. His parents hail from Bangalore, India. Table tennis, cricket, and music are some of his interests.

Early career

In his junior career, Ram won a total of nine national junior titles, including singles and doubles. Amongst his titles were the National Claycourt 14-and-under singles title, the boys 16 and under national championship, the 18 and under Easter Bowl title, Kalamazoo doubles and the Target Cup tournaments. In addition to his nine junior titles, Ram played high school tennis at Carmel High School, earned All-State honors, became the state singles champion, and earned a scholarship in both 1998 and 1999.

Rajeev earned a wild card entry into the Juniors' 2001 US Open. Ram participated in all of the Grand Slam junior tournaments [1]. He was the runner-up in juniors doubles at the 2002 Wimbledon, partnered with Brian Baker.

Ram then delayed enrollment at the University of Illinois until January 2003 so that he could continue to play tennis as an amateur on the pro circuit. During his one semester at Illinois, he won the national doubles title with Brian Wilson and helped the Fighting Illini go undefeated (32–0) and win the 2003 NCAA team championship.

Professional years

At the 2005 US Open, he lost in five sets to Stanislas Wawrinka. At the 2006 US Open, he lost in the second qualifying round to former college teammate Amer Delić. Rajeev made the 2007 Wimbledon doubles quarterfinals as a qualifier with Harel Levy, before losing to eventual champions Arnaud Clément and Michaël Llodra. Along the way, Ram and Levy upset the 15th seeded team of Martín García and Sebastián Prieto. In 2007, he won five doubles Challenger titles partnering Bobby Reynolds, and reached three other finals on his way to a career-high doubles ranking of no. 62.

On July 5, 2008, Ram won the Nielsen USTA Pro Tennis Championship in Winnetka, Illinois for his first career Challenger-level singles title.

He won his first ATP doubles title in Chennai, India 2009 with compatriot Eric Butorac.

On July 10, 2009, Ram accomplished the unusual feat of winning four professional-level tennis matches in one day. At the Campbell's Hall of Fame Tennis Championships in Rhode Island, the tournament had been rained out early in the week, pushing back many scheduled matches. On July 10, Ram advanced to the singles semifinals with wins over Samuel Groth and Jesse Levine and then partnered with Jordan Kerr to advance to the doubles semifinals with wins over Arnaud Clément/Olivier Rochus and Nicolas Mahut/Fabrice Santoro. Mahut, Santoro, and Rochus each played three matches that day, though none of them won all their matches. Ram then went on to beat Rochus and world no. 39 Sam Querrey on consecutive days to capture his first ATP title. He also captured the doubles title.

In his return to Newport in July 2010, Ram lost to no. 417-ranked qualifier Raven Klaasen after defeating Iván Navarro in the first round. Having raced to a 5–0 lead in the third set, Ram wasted several match points while serving at 5–1 before eventually losing, 7–5, 1–6, 6–7.

In Atlanta in July 2010, he won his first doubles title with American Scott Lipsky, defeating Rohan Bopanna and Kristof Vliegen for the outdoor hard court Atlanta Tennis Championships. In the semifinals, Lipsky and Ram had defeated John Isner and James Blake. In November, they won a tournament in Eckental, Germany.

Ram started 2011 strong, partnering with Lipsky in February to take the indoor hard court San Jose Open (over Christopher Kas from Germany and Alexander Peya from Austria) and the outdoor hard court Delray Beach titles (over Alejandro Falla from Colombia and Xavier Malisse from Belgium). In March, he and Lipsky won the Challenger of Dallas. In June, he and Lipsky advanced as far as the quarterfinals at the 2011 French Open, before being defeated.

2013

In 2013, he teamed with Rohan Bopanna. In Chennai, they reached the quarterfinals, only to fall to Benoît Paire and Stanislas Wawrinka.

At the Australian Open, they reached the second round, but lost to the Italian team of Simone Bolelli and Fabio Fognini.

In Dubai, they reached the semifinals, where they lost to Mahesh Bhupathi and Michaël Llodra.

2015

In 2015 at the Hall of Fame Tennis Championships he reached his second career final and won his second career ATP singles title by defeating Ivo Karlovic.

2016

In 2016 at the Delray Beach Open he reached his third career final losing to Sam Querrey. At the Olympic Games he won silver with Venus Williams following a loss to their compatriots Jack Sock and Bethanie Mattek-Sands in mixed doubles.

Grand Slam finals

Mixed Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score in the final
Runner-up	2016	US Open	Hard	Coco Vandeweghe	Laura Siegemund Mate Pavić	4–6, 4–6

Year-End Championships

Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runner-up	2016	ATP World Tour Finals, London	Hard (i)	Raven Klaasen	Henri Kontinen John Peers	6–2, 1–6, [8–10]

Masters 1000 finals

Doubles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runner-up	2016	Miami	Hard	Raven Klaasen	Pierre-Hugues Herbert Nicolas Mahut	7–5, 1–6, [7–10]
Winner	2017	Indian Wells	Hard	Raven Klaasen	Łukasz Kubot Marcelo Melo	6–7(1–7), 6–4, [10–8]

Olympic medal matches

Mixed Doubles: 1 (1 silver medal)

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Silver	2016	Summer Olympics	Hard	Venus Williams	Bethanie Mattek-Sands Jack Sock	7–6(7–3), 1–6, [7–10]

Singles: 3 (2 titles, 1 runner-up)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1–0	000000002009-07-01-0000Jul 2009	Hall of Fame Tennis Championships, United States	250 Series	Grass	Sam Querrey	6–7(3–7), 7–5, 6–3
Win	2–0	000000002015-07-01-0000Jul 2015	Hall of Fame Tennis Championships, United States (2)	250 Series	Grass	Ivo Karlović	7–6(7–5), 5–7, 7–6(7–2)
Loss	2–1	000000002016-02-01-0000Feb 2016	Delray Beach Open, United States	250 Series	Hard	Sam Querrey	4–6, 6–7(6–8)

Doubles: 21 (13 titles, 9 runners-up)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	000000002005-08-01-0000Aug 2005	New Haven Open, United States	Intl Series	Hard	Bobby Reynolds	Gastón Etlis Martín Rodríguez	4–6, 3–6
Win	1–1	000000002009-01-01-0000Jan 2009	Chennai Open, India	250 Series	Hard	Eric Butorac	Jean-Claude Scherrer Stan Wawrinka	6–3, 6–4
Win	2–1	000000002009-07-01-0000Jul 2009	Hall of Fame Tennis Championships, United States	250 Series	Grass	Jordan Kerr	Michael Kohlmann Rogier Wassen	6–7(6–8), 7–6(9–7), [10–6]
Win	3–1	000000002009-10-01-0000Oct 2009	Thailand Open, Thailand	250 Series	Hard (i)	Eric Butorac	Guillermo García López Mischa Zverev	7–6(7–4), 6–3
Win	4–1	000000002010-07-01-0000Jul 2010	Atlanta Open, United States	250 Series	Hard	Scott Lipsky	Rohan Bopanna Kristof Vliegen	6–3, 6–7(4–7), [12–10]
Loss	4–2	000000002011-02-01-0000Feb 2011	SA Tennis Open, South Africa	250 Series	Hard	Scott Lipsky	James Cerretani Adil Shamasdin	3–6, 6–3, [7–10]
Win	5–2	000000002011-02-01-0000Feb 2011	Pacific Coast Championships, United States	250 Series	Hard (i)	Scott Lipsky	Alejandro Falla Xavier Malisse	6–4, 4–6, [10–8]
Win	6–2	000000002011-02-01-0000Feb 2011	Delray Beach Open, United States	250 Series	Hard	Scott Lipsky	Christopher Kas Alexander Peya	4–6, 6–4, [10–3]
Win	7–2	000000002012-09-01-0000Sep 2012	St. Petersburg Open, Russia	250 Series	Hard (i)	Nenad Zimonjić	Lukáš Lacko Igor Zelenay	6–2, 4–6, [10–6]
Loss	7–3	000000002014-07-01-0000Jul 2014	Hall of Fame Tennis Championships, United States	250 Series	Grass	Jonathan Erlich	Chris Guccione Lleyton Hewitt	5–7, 4–6
Win	8–3	000000002015-06-01-0000Jun 2015	Halle Open, Germany	500 Series	Grass	Raven Klaasen	Rohan Bopanna Florin Mergea	7–6(7–5), 6–2
Loss	8–4	000000002015-10-01-0000Oct 2015	Malaysian Open, Malaysia	250 Series	Hard (i)	Raven Klaasen	Treat Huey Henri Kontinen	6–7(4–7), 2–6
Loss	8–5	000000002016-04-01-0000Apr 2016	Miami Open, United States	Masters 1000	Hard	Raven Klaasen	Pierre-Hugues Herbert Nicolas Mahut	7–5, 1–6, [7–10]
Loss	8–6	000000002016-05-01-0000May 2016	Geneva Open, Switzerland	250 Series	Clay	Raven Klaasen	Steve Johnson Sam Querrey	4–6, 1–6
Win	9–6	000000002016-06-01-0000Jun 2016	Halle Open, Germany (2)	500 Series	Grass	Raven Klaasen	Łukasz Kubot Alexander Peya	7–6(7–5), 6–2
Win	10–6	000000002016-10-01-0000Oct 2016	Chengdu Open, China	250 Series	Hard	Raven Klaasen	Pablo Carreño Busta Mariusz Fyrstenberg	7−6(7–2), 7−5
Loss	10–7	000000002016-10-01-0000Oct 2016	Japan Open, Japan	500 Series	Hard	Raven Klaasen	Marcel Granollers Marcin Matkowski	2–6, 6–7(4–7)
Loss	10–8	000000002016-11-01-0000Nov 2016	ATP World Tour Finals, United Kingdom	Tour Finals	Hard (i)	Raven Klaasen	Henri Kontinen John Peers	6–2, 1–6, [8–10]
Win	11–8	000000002017-02-01-0000Feb 2017	Delray Beach Open, United States (2)	250 Series	Hard	Raven Klaasen	Treat Huey Max Mirnyi	7–5, 7–5
Win	12–8	000000002017-03-01-0000Mar 2017	Indian Wells Masters, United States	Masters 1000	Hard	Raven Klaasen	Łukasz Kubot Marcelo Melo	6–7(1–7), 6–4, [10–8]
Loss	12–9	000000002017-06-01-0000Jun 2017	Rosmalen Grass Court Championships, Netherlands	250 Series	Grass	Raven Klaasen	Łukasz Kubot Marcelo Melo	3–6, 4–6
Win	13–9	000000002017-07-01-0000Jul 2017	Hall of Fame Tennis Championships, United States	250 Series	Grass	Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi	Matt Reid John-Patrick Smith	6–4, 4–6, [10–7]

Singles performance timeline

Doubles performance timeline