Rajeev Ram

Rajeev Ram (born March 18, 1984) is an American professional tennis player who is a former world no. 1 in doubles.

In addition to his nine junior titles, Ram played high school tennis at Carmel, earned All-State honors, became the state singles champion, and earned a scholarship in both 1998 and 1999.

Rajeev earned a wildcard entry into the Juniors' 2001 US Open.

Ram participated in all of the Grand Slam junior tournaments.

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 Urbana–Champaign until January 2003 so that he could continue to play tennis as an amateur on the pro circuit.

During his one semester as a ringer 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.

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 beat Rochus and Sam Querrey on consecutive days to capture his first ATP title.

He accomplished the rare feat of winning a title as a lucky loser and also captured the doubles title.

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 June, he and Lipsky advanced to the quarterfinals at the 2011 French Open.

In 2013, he teamed with Rohan Bopanna, and in Dubai, they reached the semifinals.

At the 2014 US Open (tennis) he reached his first Grand Slam semifinal partnering Scott Lipsky where they were defeated by top seeds and eventual champions, the Bryan brothers.

At the Hall of Fame Tennis Championships, he reached his second career final and won his second career ATP singles title by defeating Ivo Karlović.

At the Delray Beach Open, Ram reached his third career final and first singles final outside the grass courts of the Hall of Fame Open, losing to Sam Querrey.

At the Olympic Games, he won silver with Venus Williams in mixed doubles.

Less than a month later, Ram and CoCo Vandeweghe advanced to the mixed doubles final at the US Open, where they were defeated in straight sets by Mate Pavić and Laura Siegemund.

In men's doubles, Ram and partner Raven Klaasen reached the finals for the ATP World Tour Finals.

Ram, with his partner Barbora Krejčíková won the Australian Open mixed doubles title.

Ram, with his partner Joe Salisbury won the Australian Open men's doubles tournament, defeating Max Purcell and Luke Saville in the final.

Ram also won a mixed doubles silver medal with Venus Williams at the 2016 Summer Olympics, and finished runner-up in men's doubles at the 2021 Australian Open, and in mixed doubles at the 2016 US Open.

He became world No. 1 for the first time in October 2022, and has won 28 doubles titles on the ATP Tour, including five at Masters 1000 level.

Ram has qualified for the ATP Finals on six occasions, winning the title in 2022 and in 2023, having finished as runner-up in both 2016 and 2021.

Prior to his retirement from singles in 2017, Ram reached a career-high ranking of world No. 56 in April 2016, and won two ATP singles titles, at the Hall of Fame Tennis Championships in both 2009 and 2015.

He made his Davis Cup debut for the United States in 2021, and competed at the 2016 and 2020 Olympic Games.

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, and the Target Cup tournaments.

Ram is a six-time major champion, having won the 2020 Australian Open, the 2021 US Open, the 2022 US Open, and the 2023 US Open in men's doubles with Joe Salisbury, as well as Australian Open mixed doubles titles in 2019 and 2021 alongside Barbora Krejčíková.

As a result, he reached a career high of world No. 5 in doubles, on February 3, 2020.

Ram and partner Barbora Krejčíková won Australian Open mixed doubles tournament, defeating Matthew Ebden and Samantha Stosur.