Rajeev Ram
Rajeev Ram (born March 18, 1984 in Englewood, Colorado) is an American professional tennis player on the ATP Tour who is known best as a doubles specialist. He has advanced as far as the semifinals in doubles at the US Open and the quarterfinals at the other three slams. Ram has also won two ATP singles titles at the Hall of Fame Tennis Championships in 2009 and again in 2015.
Ram has claimed eight ATP doubles titles in his career, with several different partners. His career-high singles ranking is world no. 78, achieved in November 2009. He reached as high as world no. 30 in doubles in July 2015.
Personal
Ram was born to Raghav and Sushma Ram. His parents hail from Bangalore, India. Table tennis, cricket, and music are some of his interests.
Career
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.
