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Somdev Devvarman (Somdev Kishore Devvarman) was born on 13 February, 1985 in Agartala, Tripura, India, is an Indian tennis player. Discover Somdev Devvarman's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 39 years old?
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Somdev Kishore Devvarman |
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39 years old |
Zodiac Sign |
Aquarius |
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13 February, 1985 |
Birthday |
13 February |
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Agartala, Tripura, India |
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India
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He is a member of famous Player with the age 39 years old group. He one of the Richest Player who was born in India.
Somdev Devvarman Height, Weight & Measurements
At 39 years old, Somdev Devvarman height is 1.80 m .
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1.80 m |
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Dating & Relationship status
He is currently single. He is not dating anyone. We don't have much information about He's past relationship and any previous engaged. According to our Database, He has no children.
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Somdev Devvarman Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Somdev Devvarman worth at the age of 39 years old? Somdev Devvarman’s income source is mostly from being a successful Player. He is from India. We have estimated Somdev Devvarman's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1,459,122 |
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Timeline
At the year's first Grand Slam, the Australian Open, Somdev was seeded 28th in singles qualifying.
Only three other players have matched that record since 1950.
Somdev Kishore Devvarman (born 13 February 1985) is an Indian former professional tennis player.
He hit the headlines for being the only collegiate player to have made three consecutive finals at the NCAA, winning back-to-back finals in his junior and senior years at the University of Virginia.
Devvarman started competing in Futures tournaments in 2002 at the age of 17.
His biggest achievement during this time was a victory in the Kolkata F2 championship in 2004, after which he rose to 666 in the world rankings.
He moved to the USA later that year and competed less regularly while at the University of Virginia.
Somdev, while at college, won the 2007 NCAA Singles Championship by defeating Georgia Bulldog's senior, the top seed John Isner in the final.
A year later, he defeated Tennessee's J.P. Smith to win his second consecutive NCAA Singles National Championship.
Devvarman made the final of the Kennedy Funding Invitational in New York in July 2007.
His 44–1 win–loss record in 2008 at the NCAA Men's Tennis Championship is unprecedented.
Devvarman becomes the 13th player in the 124-year history of the tournament to win consecutive titles, and just the fourth to do so in the past 50 years with an unprecedented 44–1 record in 2008.
Somdev finished university with a degree in sociology and turned pro in the summer of 2008.
He won his first career title that year at a Futures tournament in Rochester, New York.
He received automatic entry into the Vancouver Open and reached the quarterfinals, before his first professional defeat, by Go Soeda.
At the BCR Bucharest Open, Devvarman lost to world No. 18 Nicolás Almagro after winning the first set in the first round, having beaten No. 93 Italian Filippo Volandri in the final round of qualifying.
Devvarman ended 2008 ranked as world No. 204.
He had started the year at No. 1033.
His best achievement on the ATP World Tour was reaching the final of the Chennai Open in 2009, as a wild card entry.
The University of Virginia retired Devvarman's jersey in 2009.
Devvarman reached his first ATP Tour final at the 2009 Chennai Open, the first tournament of the new season, beating two-time Chennai Open champion and world No. 42 Carlos Moyá of Spain and No. 25 Ivo Karlović of Croatia.
Rainer Schüttler of Germany pulled out due to injury in the semifinals, meaning that Devvarman progressed to the final.
In the final, he lost to Marin Čilić of Croatia.
In 2010, Somdev won the gold medal in the men's singles event of XIXth Commonwealth Games at the R.K. Khanna Tennis Stadium in New Delhi, and he followed it up with both men's singles and doubles gold in the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, China.
At the end of 2010, he was felicitated by the Tamil Nadu Tennis Association in Chennai.
After graduating from the University of Virginia, Devvarman signed with Mamba International, a sports management company based in Charlottesville, and started his professional career at the Futures tournament in Rochester, New York, where he won the singles title.
He and his former university partner, Treat Huey, won the doubles title.
The next week at another Futures match in Pittsburgh, Devvarman and Huey won the doubles title, and Devvarman the singles.
In 2011, Devvarman received the Arjuna Award from the Indian government for his tennis successes.
In March 2017, the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Government of India, appointed him as the national observer for tennis.
In 2018, he was awarded with the civilian award Padma Shri.
Somdev was born into a Tripuri Hindu family in Guwahati, Assam to Ranjana and Pravanjan Dev Varman, a retired income tax commissioner.
He belongs to the Indian state of Tripura.
His family moved to Calcutta when he was 3 to 4 months old and stayed there until he was 8.
His father's work took the family to Madras (Chennai) where Somdev grew up, beginning tennis at age 9, and studied at Madras Christian College Higher Secondary School.