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Sriram Balaji (born 18 March 1990) is an Indian professional tennis player. Balaji has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 287, achieved on 19 June 2017 and a doubles ranking of world No. 71 achieved on 13 November 2023.

Balaji has won a total of 9 ITF singles titles on the futures circuit as well as 43 doubles ITF Futures and 6 Challenger doubles titles on the circuit. He is currently a member of the Indian Davis Cup team. He played his debut Davis cup partnering Rohan Bopanna in March 2017 making India win 3–0 and enter into Davis Cup World Play off.

Sriram was born to Narayanaswamy and Jayanthi Narayanaswamy in Coimbatore. He started playing tennis at the age of nine. He succeeded his schooling from Kendriya Vidyalaya and PERKS Matriculation Higher Secondary School in Coimbatore. He started his tennis career at PERKS Tennis Academy, Coimbatore. He is currently getting trained at Schüttler-Waske Tennis University in Germany. His hobbies are swimming and reading books. His favorite tennis player is Roger Federer. Balaji is presently a Junior Officer in the Indian Army. The Army has supported his sports endeavours.

Represented India for the Nike International Masters Tennis Tournament held at Sun City, South Africa during November 2002 and Won Three Countries and obtained ninth position in the Team event.
Ranked No.1 in National Level Competition Under 14 age Category during April – September 2004.
Represented India for the Asia/Oceania Qualifying, World Junior Tennis Competition held at Melbourne, Australia during MAY 10 – 15, 2004. 16 Countries participated and obtained 11th Position in Team event.
Represented India for Junior Davis Cup Tournament held at Kuching, Malaysia during April 2006.
Participated in 15th Asian Games, Youth Camp during 28 November to 9 December 2006 held at Doha, Qatar.

Balaji made his ATP main draw debut at the 2012 Aircel Chennai Open in the doubles event, partnering Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan. The wildcard pairing put up a good fight, but lost to the second seeds Scott Lipsky and Rajeev Ram 5–7, 4–6.

At the 2014 Aircel Chennai Open, Balaji was given a wildcard into the doubles event with Ramkumar Ramanathan. The Indian pair defeated Lipsky and Ram, who Balaji had lost to in 2012, 7–5, 6–3. In the quarterfinals the pair lost to Croatian-duo Marin Draganja and Mate Pavić, 3–6, 3–6.

Balaji joined the Mumbai Tennis Masters team for Champions Tennis League India.

He reached his first ATP final at the 2023 Tata Open Maharashtra with compatriot Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan as an alternate pair. They defeated compatriots Purav Raja and Divij Sharan in straight sets in first round. In the quarterfinals, they upset second seeds Nathaniel Lammons and Jackson Withrow in straight sets winning both sets in a tiebreak. Next they defeated British pair of Jack Cash and Henry Patten in the semifinals in straight sets to reach their first ATP Tour final as a team. Despite not losing a single set on their way to final they were defeated in straight sets by Sander Gillé and Joran Vliegen in the final.

He won his second Grand Slam doubles match at the 2023 Australian Open with Nedunchezhiyan defeating fifth seeds Ivan Dodig and Austin Krajicek as an alternate pair.

He entered the main draw of the 2023 French Open making his debut at this Major also as an alternate pair with Nedunchezhiyan.

He reached the third round recording his first wins at the 2024 French Open as an alternate pair partnering Miguel Ángel Reyes-Varela over alternates Sem Verbeek and Reese Stalder, and wildcards Théo Arribagé and Dan Added.

Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up)

Titles by setting
Legend
Grand Slam tournaments (0–0)
ATP World Tour Finals (0–0)
ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (0–0)
ATP World Tour 500 Series (0–0)
ATP World Tour 250 Series (0–1)
Titles by surface
Hard (0–1)
Clay (0–0)
Grass (0–0)
Titles by setting
Outdoor (0–1)
Indoor (0–0)
Grand Slam tournaments (0–0)
ATP World Tour Finals (0–0)
ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (0–0)
ATP World Tour 500 Series (0–0)
ATP World Tour 250 Series (0–1)
Hard (0–1)
Clay (0–0)
Grass (0–0)
Outdoor (0–1)
Indoor (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss		Jan 2023	Maharashtra Open, India	250 Series	Hard	Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan	Sander Gillé Joran Vliegen	4–6, 4–6

Singles: 23 (9–14)

Titles by surface
Legend (singles)
ATP Challenger Tour (0–0)
ITF Futures Tour (9–14)
Titles by surface
Hard (7–9)
Clay (2–5)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)
ATP Challenger Tour (0–0)
ITF Futures Tour (9–14)
Hard (7–9)
Clay (2–5)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)

Result	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	Dec 2011	India F12, Kolkata	Futures	Clay	Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan	2–6, 1–6
Loss	Feb 2012	India F1, Chandigarh	Futures	Hard	Sanam Singh	5–7, 3–6
Win	May 2012	India F6, Chennai	Futures	Clay	Joss Espasandin	6–3, 6–4
Loss	Jun 2012	India F8, Mysore	Futures	Hard	Vishnu Vardhan	6–7, 3–6
Win	Aug 2012	Iran F1, Esfahan	Futures	Clay	Vijay Sundar Prashanth	6–3, 6–2
Loss	Dec 2012	India F15, Davanagere	Futures	Hard	Sanam Singh	2–6, 6–7
Win	Jun 2013	India F7, Chennai	Futures	Hard	Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan	6–7, 6–4, 6–0
Loss	Nov 2013	India F9, Delhi	Futures	Hard	Yuki Bhambri	2–6, 2–6
Win	Nov 2013	India F10, Bhopal	Futures	Hard	Na Jung-woong	7–5, 7–5
Loss	Mar 2014	India F4, Trichy	Futures	Clay	Enrique López Pérez	4–6, 4–6
Win	Aug 2014	Kazakhstan F11, Astana	Futures	Hard	Huang Liang-chi	6–3, 6–2
Loss	Aug 2014	Chinese Taipei F2, Kaohsiung	Futures	Hard	Karen Khachanov	7–6, 4–6, 3–6
Loss	Nov 2014	India F6, Kolkata	Futures	Clay	Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan	3–6, 4–6
Win	Nov 2014	India F8, Gwalior	Futures	Hard	Mohit Mayur Jayaprakash	6–3, 6–7, 6–3
Win	Sep 2016	Thailand F2, Hua Hin	Futures	Hard	Hong Seong-chan	6–4, 7–6
Loss	Sep 2016	India F4, Chennai	Futures	Clay	Prajnesh Gunneswaran	6–3, 5–7, 6–7
Loss	Sep 2016	India F5, Chennai	Futures	Hard	Vishnu Vardhan	4–6, 3–6
Loss	Feb 2017	India F1, Chandigarh	Futures	Hard	Yuki Bhambri	2–6, 2–6
Win	Feb 2017	India F2, Jorhat	Futures	Hard	Vishnu Vardhan	6–2, 7–6
Loss	Mar 2017	India F4, Bhilai	Futures	Hard	Prajnesh Gunneswaran	4–6, 2–6
Win	Mar 2017	India F5, Bangalore	Futures	Hard	Prajnesh Gunneswaran	2–6, 6–3, 6–4
Loss	Mar 2017	India F6, Trivandrum	Futures	Clay	Prajnesh Gunneswaran	5–7, 3–6
Loss	Jun 2017	Uzbekistan F3, Andijan	Futures	Hard	Sanjar Fayziev	3–6, 3–6

Doubles: 85 (52–33)

Titles by surface
Legend (doubles)
ATP Challenger Tour (9–8)
ITF Futures Tour (43–25)
Titles by surface
Hard (41–20)
Clay (11–13)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)
ATP Challenger Tour (9–8)
ITF Futures Tour (43–25)
Hard (41–20)
Clay (11–13)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)

Result	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	Jul 2007	India F6, Chennai	Futures	Clay	Vijay Sundar Prashanth	Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan Vivek Shokeen	5–7, 4–6
Win	Apr 2009	India F3, New Delhi	Futures	Hard	Ashutosh Singh	Yuichi Ito Raven Klaasen	7–6, 7–6
Loss	Apr 2010	India F3, Vijayawada	Futures	Hard	Vignesh Peranamallur	Divij Sharan Vishnu Vardhan	6–2, 3–6, [3–10]
Win	Nov 2010	Thailand F5, Nonthaburi	Futures	Hard	Vijayant Malik	Gao Peng Gao Wan	6–3, 7–6
Loss	Mar 2011	India F2, Kolkata	Futures	Clay	Ashutosh Singh	Divij Sharan Vishnu Vardhan	6–7, 6–7
Loss	Nov 2011	India F12, New Delhi	Futures	Hard	Vijayant Malik	Karan Rastogi Vishnu Vardhan	1–6, 3–6
Win	Dec 2011	India F12, Kolkata	Futures	Clay	Vinayak Sharma Kaza	Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan Vijay Sundar Prashanth	6–3, 4–6, [10–3]
Win	Mar 2012	India F2, Bhopal	Futures	Hard	Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan	Vijay Sundar Prashanth Arun-Prakash Rajagopalan	7–6, 3–6, [10–6]
Win	Apr 2012	Vietnam F1, Ho Chi Minh City	Futures	Hard	Rohan Gajjar	Dane Propoggia Jose Statham	6–3, 6–4
Win	Apr 2012	India F5, Madurai	Futures	Clay	Vignesh Peranamallur	André Gaspar Murta Matthieu Viérin	7–6, 7–6
Win	Jun 2012	India F7, Mandya	Futures	Hard	Arun-Prakash Rajagopalan	Saketh Myneni Ouyang Bowen	7–5, 6–1
Win	Jun 2012	India F8, Mysore	Futures	Hard	Arun-Prakash Rajagopalan	Kunal Anand Ajai Selvaraj	3–6, 6–1, [10–6]
Loss	Jun 2012	India F9, Bangalore	Futures	Hard	Arun-Prakash Rajagopalan	Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan	6–4, 3–6, [7–10]
Win	Jul 2012	Germany F7, Römerberg	Futures	Clay	Vijay Sundar Prashanth	Lukas Jastraunig Marc Rath	7–5, 6–4
Loss	Aug 2012	Iran F1, Esfahan	Futures	Clay	Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan	Roman Jebavý Michal Schmid	4–6, 4–6
Win	Sep 2012	Iran F2, Esfahan	Futures	Clay	Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan	Sarvar Ikramov Sergey Shipilov	6–1, 6–1
Loss	Oct 2012	India F13, Mumbai	Futures	Hard	Arun-Prakash Rajagopalan	Saketh Myneni Purav Raja	0–6, 6–4, [8–10]
Loss	Nov 2012	India F14, Pune	Futures	Hard	Arun-Prakash Rajagopalan	Saketh Myneni Purav Raja	5–7, 7–6, [5–10]
Win	Dec 2012	India F15, Davanagere	Futures	Hard	Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan	Vijay Sundar Prashanth Arun-Prakash Rajagopalan	6–7, 6–4, [10–1]
Loss	Mar 2013	India F1, Chennai	Futures	Clay	Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan	Arata Onozawa Arun-Prakash Rajagopalan	4–6, 6–0, [7–10]
Win	May 2013	India F4, Chandigarh	Futures	Hard	Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan	Arun-Prakash Rajagopalan Vishnu Vardhan	6–3, 6–4
Loss	May 2013	India F5, Rohtak	Futures	Hard	Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan	Saketh Myneni Arun-Prakash Rajagopalan	4–6, 3–6
Win	Jun 2013	India F6, Chennai	Futures	Hard	Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan	Toshihide Matsui Bumpei Sato	6–1, 6–4
Win	Jun 2013	India F7, Chennai	Futures	Hard	Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan	Keith-Patrick Crowley Arun-Prakash Rajagopalan	6–2, 6–7, [10–5]
Win	Aug 2013	China F6, Zhangjiagang	Futures	Hard	Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan	Lim Yong-kyu Toshihide Matsui	7–5, 7–6
Win	Aug 2013	China F7, Tianjin	Futures	Hard	Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan	Chung Hyeon Nam Ji-sung	6–3, 6–2
Loss	Sep 2013	Egypt F22, Sharm El Sheikh	Futures	Clay	Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan	Sebastián Rivera Ricardo Urzúa Rivera	4–6, 6–7
Loss	Sep 2013	Egypt F23, Sharm El Sheikh	Futures	Clay	Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan	Cristian Rodríguez Ricardo Urzúa Rivera	5–7, 1–6
Win	Sep 2013	Egypt F24, Sharm El Sheikh	Futures	Clay	Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan	Karim Hossam Karim-Mohamed Maamoun	6–4, 7–6
Loss	Oct 2013	Germany F19, Essen	Futures	Hard (i)	Miki Janković	Andreas Mies Oscar Otte	w/o
Win	Nov 2013	India F9, Delhi	Futures	Hard	Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan	Ramkumar Ramanathan Ashwin Vijayragavan	7–6, 6–3
Win	Nov 2013	India F11, Raipur	Futures	Hard	Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan	Mohit Mayur Jayaprakash Ramkumar Ramanathan	6–1, 6–3
Loss	Feb 2014	Chennai, India	Challenger	Hard	Blaž Rola	Yuki Bhambri Michael Venus	4–6, 6–7
Win	Feb 2014	India F1, Chandigarh	Futures	Hard	Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan	Vivek Shokeen Sanam Singh	6–4, 6–4
Loss	Mar 2014	India F2, Bhimavaram	Futures	Hard	Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan	Saketh Myneni Sanam Singh	6–7, 3–6
Loss	Mar 2014	India F3, Chennai	Futures	Clay	Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan	Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan Vishnu Vardhan	6–7, 3–6
Loss	Mar 2014	India F5, Madurai	Futures	Clay	Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan	Giorgio Portaluri Lucas Renard	4–6, 2–6
Win	Apr 2014	Uzbekistan F2, Namangan	Futures	Hard	Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan	Piotr Gadomski Vishnu Vardhan	6–3, 6–1
Win	Aug 2014	Kazakhstan F10, Astana	Futures	Hard	Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan	Huang Liang-chi Denis Matsukevitch	6–2, 6–4
Loss	Aug 2014	Kazakhstan F11, Astana	Futures	Hard	Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan	Chen Ti Denis Matsukevitch	2–6, 3–6
Win	Sep 2014	Sweden F4, Danderyd	Futures	Hard (i)	Patrik Rosenholm	Jacob Adaktusson Tobias Blomgren	6–4, 6–4
Loss	Sep 2014	Sweden F5, Falun	Futures	Hard (i)	Patrik Rosenholm	Lewis Burton Edward Corrie	6–7, 1–6
Win	Nov 2014	India F6, Kolkata	Futures	Clay	Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan	Vijay Sundar Prashanth Vishnu Vardhan	6–4, 6–2
Win	Dec 2014	Qatar F5, Doha	Futures	Hard	Ramkumar Ramanathan	Sam Barry Maximilian Neuchrist	6–3, 6–4
Win	Mar 2015	India F2, Bhimavaram	Futures	Hard	Vishnu Vardhan	Ramkumar Ramanathan Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan	6–7, 6–3, [10–6]
Loss	Mar 2015	India F4, Chennai	Futures	Clay	Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan	Chandril Sood Lakshit Sood	6–4, 5–7, [13–15]
Win	Jun 2015	India F9, Hyderabad	Futures	Hard (i)	Vishnu Vardhan	Bhavesh Gour Sidharth Rawat	6–3, 6–0
Win	Jun 2015	India F10, Hyderabad	Futures	Hard (i)	Vishnu Vardhan	Antoine Escoffier Hugo Grenier	6–4, 6–2
Win	Jul 2015	China F10, Xi'an	Futures	Hard	Li Zhe	Bai Yan Chen Ti	4–6, 7–6, [13–11]
Loss	Jul 2015	China F11, Xi'an	Futures	Hard	Li Zhe	Bai Yan Hsieh Cheng-peng	7–6, 3–6, [7–10]
Win	Nov 2015	India F16, Gwalior	Futures	Hard	Vishnu Vardhan	Hung Jui-chen Ramkumar Ramanathan	6–4, 7–6
Loss	Apr 2016	China F4, Zhangjiagang	Futures	Hard	Shuichi Sekiguchi	Hsieh Cheng-peng Peng Hsien-yin	6–7, 3–6
Win	Apr 2016	India F1, Chandigarh	Futures	Hard	Vishnu Vardhan	Yuichi Ito Sho Katayama	6–1, 6–4
Win	May 2016	India F3, Jassowal	Futures	Hard	Vijay Sundar Prashanth	John Lamble Bernardo Saraiva	6–3, 6–3
Win	May 2016	Uzbekistan F3, Andijan	Futures	Hard	Markos Kalovelonis	Roman Khassanov Vitaly Kozyukov	6–3, 6–4
Loss	Aug 2016	Indonesia F1, Jakarta	Futures	Hard	Vishnu Vardhan	Huang Liang-chi Wang Aoran	3–6, 6–4, [10–12]
Win	Sep 2016	Thailand F2, Hua Hin	Futures	Hard	Vijay Sundar Prashanth	Pruchya Isaro Ken Onishi	6–2, 6–2
Win	Sep 2016	India F4, Chennai	Futures	Clay	Vijay Sundar Prashanth	Kunal Anand Anvit Bendre	7–6, 6–1
Win	Sep 2016	India F5, Chennai	Futures	Hard	Vishnu Vardhan	Kunal Anand Anvit Bendre	6–3, 6–4
Win	Sep 2016	India F6, Coimbatore	Futures	Hard	Vishnu Vardhan	Anvit Bendre Vijay Sundar Prashanth	6–3, 6–1
Loss	Nov 2016	Australia F10, Blacktown	Futures	Hard	Sanam Singh	Steven de Waard Jarmere Jenkins	4–6, 2–6
Win	Feb 2017	India F2, Jorhat	Futures	Hard	Vishnu Vardhan	Mohit Mayur Jayaprakash Vijay Sundar Prashanth	7–6, 4–6, [10–6]
Win	Mar 2017	India F3, Guwahati	Futures	Hard	Vishnu Vardhan	Vijay Sundar Prashanth Sanam Singh	6–3, 3–6, [10–6]
Win	Mar 2017	India F4, Bhilai	Futures	Hard	Vishnu Vardhan	Alexander Centenari Sami Reinwein	6–2, 6–4
Loss	Mar 2017	India F5, Bangalore	Futures	Hard	Vishnu Vardhan	Chandril Sood Lakshit Sood	6–2, 4–6, [6–10]
Win	Mar 2017	India F6, Trivandrum	Futures	Clay	Vishnu Vardhan	Hung Jui-chen Wong Hong-kit	6–3, 7–5
Win	Apr 2017	Uzbekistan F1, Bukhara	Futures	Hard	Vishnu Vardhan	Sergey Betov Vladyslav Manafov	6–4, 7–5
Loss	Apr 2017	Uzbekistan F2, Karshi	Futures	Hard	Vishnu Vardhan	Sanjar Fayziev Timur Khabibulin	6–7, 3–6
Win	Jun 2017	Uzbekistan F3, Andijan	Futures	Hard	Vishnu Vardhan	Vladyslav Manafov Denis Matsukevitch	6–3, 6–2
Win	Jun 2017	Fergana, Uzbekistan	Challenger	Hard	Vishnu Vardhan	Yuya Kibi Shuichi Sekiguchi	6–3, 6–3
Loss	Jul 2017	Båstad, Sweden	Challenger	Clay	Vijay Sundar Prashanth	Tuna Altuna Václav Šafránek	1–6, 4–6
Win	Aug 2017	Chengdu, China, P.R.	Challenger	Hard	Vishnu Vardhan	Hsieh Cheng-peng Peng Hsien-yin	6–3, 6–4
Loss	Aug 2017	Jinan, China, P.R.	Challenger	Hard	Vishnu Vardhan	Hsieh Cheng-peng Peng Hsien-yin	6–4, 4–6, [4–10]
Win	Nov 2017	Shenzhen, China, P.R.	Challenger	Hard	Vishnu Vardhan	Austin Krajicek Jackson Withrow	7–6, 7–6
Win	Feb 2018	Chennai, India	Challenger	Hard	Vishnu Vardhan	Cem İlkel Danilo Petrović	7–6, 5–7, [10–5]
Win	May 2018	Samarkand, Uzbekistan	Challenger	Clay	Vishnu Vardhan	Mikhail Elgin Denis Istomin	w/o
Loss	Jul 2018	Braunschweig, Germany	Challenger	Clay	Vishnu Vardhan	Santiago González Wesley Koolhof	3–6, 3–6
Loss	Nov 2018	Shenzhen, China, P.R.	Challenger	Hard	Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan	Hsieh Cheng-peng Christopher Rungkat	4–6, 2–6
Loss	Mar 2019	Zhangjiagang, China, P.R.	Challenger	Hard	Hans Hach	Max Purcell Luke Saville	2–6, 6–7
Win	Apr 2019	Taipei, Chinese Taipei	Challenger	Hard (i)	Jonathan Erlich	Sander Arends Tristan-Samuel Weissborn	6–3, 6–2
Loss	Sep 2020	Prostějov, Czech Republic	Challenger	Clay	Divij Sharan	Zdeněk Kolář Lukáš Rosol	2–6, 6–2, [6–10]
Win	Sep 2021	Cassis, France	Challenger	Hard	Ramkumar Ramanathan	Hans Hach Verdugo Miguel Ángel Reyes-Varela	6–4, 3–6, [10–6]
Win	Jun 2022	Bratislava, Slovakia	Challenger	Clay	Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan	Vladyslav Manafov Oleg Prihodko	7–6, 6–4
Win	Jun 2022	Blois, France	Challenger	Clay	Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan	Romain Arneodo Jonathan Eysseric	6–4, 6–7, [10–7]
Loss	May 2023	Skopje, North Macedonia	Challenger	Clay	Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan	Petr Nouza Andrew Paulson	6–7, 3–6

Sriram Balaji

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Personal life

Junior career

Career

ATP career finals

Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up)

Challenger and Futures finals

Singles: 23 (9–14)

Doubles: 85 (52–33)