Divij Sharan

Divij Sharan (born 2 March 1986) is an Indian professional tennis player.

He specialises in doubles and competes on the ATP World Tour.

He has won 5 ATP World Tour titles in men's doubles and represents India in the Davis Cup.

Sharan's best junior world doubles ranking was No. 5 in 2003.

His best result in Grand Slam junior championships was his semifinal appearance at the 2004 French Open where he partnered with compatriot Tushar Liberhan.

Sharan turned pro in 2004.

He found limited success in singles and developed as doubles specialist.

He won his first Futures doubles title 3 years later, in 2007.

He reached his first doubles ATP Challenger finals in 2010 at the Kyoto Challenger in Japan.

He won his first doubles ATP Challenger title in September 2011 at the Ningbo Challenger in China.

He continued to find success in doubles at both ITF and Challenger events.

By the end of 2011, he had won 16 ITF titles and 1 ATP Challenger title.

2012 proved to be a breakthrough year for Sharan on the ATP Challenger Tour.

He reached 8 ATP Challenger doubles finals and won 2 titles in the year.

Sharan won the Busan Challenger with Yuki Bhambri and the Bangkok Challenger with Vishnu Vardhan.

In September, Sharan made his Davis Cup debut against New Zealand.

With his good run he entered into list of top 100 ranked doubles players and later finished the year close to top 100 doubles ranking at 107.

Sharan continued to impress at Challenger events.

He reached 5 finals and won a title at the Kyoto Challenger.

This was his first title with his most successful partner Purav Raja.

The pair played together throughout the year and they found their biggest success by winning their first ATP World Tour title at the 2013 Claro Open in Bogota, Colombia.

They defeated the second-seeded French-Dutch combination of Édouard Roger-Vasselin and Igor Sijsling in the final.

Sharan entered the qualifying draw at the 2013 Wimbledon Championships with Raja, with the pair successfully qualifying for the main draw.

They lost in the first round to Nicholas Monroe and Simon Stadler.

This was the first match at a Grand Slam event for both Raja and Sharan.

At the 2013 US Open, Sharan partnered with Lu Yen-hsun from Chinese Taipei.

The pair reached the third round where they lost to Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi and Jean-Julien Rojer.

As a result of this good run, Sharan finished the year inside the top 100 doubles rankings for the first time at 71.

Sharan reached 4 Challenger finals and won 2 titles in the year 2014.

He won the Kyoto Challenger with Purav Raja and the Shanghai Challenger with Yuki Bhambri.

His best result at an ATP World Tour event was a semifinal appearance at the 2014 Claro Open where he had partnered with Canadian player Adil Shamasdin.

At the 2014 Asian Games, Sharan won a bronze medal for India with Yuki Bhambri.

The year 2015 was not so successful for Sharan.

He won a gold medal in the men's doubles at the 2018 Asian Games.

Sharan was born in New Delhi.

He began playing tennis at the age of seven at a local tennis academy.

His favorite surfaces are grass and hard courts.

His overall favorite shot is the volley.

His idols growing up were Roger Federer, Mahesh Bhupathi and Leander Paes.

He married British tennis player Samantha Murray in July 2019.