Divij Sharan

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.^[1] He married British tennis player Samantha Murray in July 2019.^[2]

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.^[3][4]

Early years edit

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.^[5] 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.^[6] 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: Breakthrough edit

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^[7] and the Bangkok Challenger with Vishnu Vardhan. In September, Sharan made his Davis Cup debut against New Zealand.^[8] 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.

2013: First ATP World Tour title, top 100 debut edit

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.^[9]

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.^[10] 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.^[11]

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

2014: Asian Games medal edit

Sharan reached 4 Challenger finals and won 2 titles in the year 2014. He won the Kyoto Challenger with Purav Raja^[12] 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.^[13]

2015: Out of top 100 edit

The year 2015 was not so successful for Sharan. He played with many different partners and reached 4 Challenger finals, winning 2 of them. He won the Guzzini Challenger with British partner Ken Skupski^[14] and the Izmir Challenger with compatriot Saketh Myneni.^[15] He played only a singles match at ATP World Tour level and lost it. He finished the year ranked 134 as a doubles player.

2016: Second ATP title, back to top 100 edit

Sharan made an excellent comeback in 2016. He partnered with Purav Raja and reached 6 ATP Challenger finals, winning 4 of them. They won the Manchester Trophy Challenger, Aegon Surbiton Trophy, Open Castilla y León and Pune Challenger. The pair also won their second ATP World Tour title at the Los Cabos Open in Mexico. They defeated the pair of Jonathan Erlich and Ken Skupski in the final.^[16] Sharan finished the year with doubles ranking of No. 63.

2017: Entry into the top 50 edit

Sharan started the new season on strong note. He reached his third ATP World Tour final at the 2017 Chennai Open partnering with Purav Raja. In an all Indian final, they lost to the team of Rohan Bopanna and Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan.^[17] He then reached his fourth ATP World Tour final and won his third ATP title in Belgium at the European Open with his new partner Scott Lipsky. They defeated the pair of Santiago González and Julio Peralta in the final.^[18]

Sharan had good run on the Challenger Tour as well. He reached four finals winning two of it. He won titles in Bordeaux with Purav Raja^[19] and Bangaluru with Mikhail Elgin. On the back of good results, Sharan entered the top-50 on 27 November 2017 and has been holding a spot inside the top-50 since then.

2018: Asian Games gold medal, first Grand Slam quarter final edit

Sharan started year with Maharashtra Open where he paired with compatriot Yuki Bhambri. The pair reached to the semis but lost to French pair of Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Gilles Simon. At Australian Open, he reached third round thus making his best performance at the event.

He won his first Challenger title of the season at Canberra Challenger.^[20] He continued with few more Challenger tournaments till April but later moved his focus entirely on ATP world tour.

At Wimbledon Championships, Sharan reached his first Gland Slam quarter-finals. He partnered with Artem Sitak from New Zealand. They lost to eventual champions Mike Bryan and Jack Sock.^[21]

Sharan finished another year inside the top 50 with doubles ranking of 39.

2019: Fourth and fifth titles edit

Sharan began the year teaming up with his compatriot Rohan Bopanna. The new pairing started off with a bang by capturing the Pune open doubles title in front of the home crowd. This was Sharan's 4th title on ATP tour. Following this result the pair lost a few close matches and they mutually decided to end their partnership citing their low combined ranking as the primary reason behind the split. Divij then teamed up with the Brazilian doubles specialist Marcelo Demolinor and reached the doubles final in the Bavarian open. Following this he reached the round of 16 in Wimbledon. Divij won his 5th title in ATP tour teaming up with Igor Zelenay in St Petersburg, Russia to win his second title of the year.

Doubles: 7 (5 titles, 2 runners-up) edit

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1–0	Jul 2013	Colombia Open, Colombia	250 Series	Hard	Purav Raja	Édouard Roger-Vasselin Igor Sijsling	7–6(7–4), 7–6(7–3)
Win	2–0	Aug 2016	Los Cabos Open, Mexico	250 Series	Hard	Purav Raja	Jonathan Erlich Ken Skupski	7–6(7–4), 7–6(7–3)
Loss	2–1	Jan 2017	Chennai Open, India	250 Series	Hard	Purav Raja	Rohan Bopanna Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan	3–6, 4–6
Win	3–1	Oct 2017	European Open, Belgium	250 Series	Hard (i)	Scott Lipsky	Santiago González Julio Peralta	6–4, 2–6, [10–5]
Win	4–1	Jan 2019	Maharashtra Open, India	250 Series	Hard	Rohan Bopanna	Luke Bambridge Jonny O'Mara	6–3, 6–4
Loss	4–2	May 2019	Bavarian Championships, Germany	250 Series	Clay	Marcelo Demoliner	Frederik Nielsen Tim Pütz	4–6, 2–6
Win	5–2	Sep 2019	St. Petersburg Open, Russia	250 Series	Hard (i)	Igor Zelenay	Matteo Berrettini Simone Bolelli	6–3, 3–6, [10–8]

Singles: 3 (0–3) edit

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0–1	Nov 2007	Pakistan F2, Lahore	Futures	Grass	Aqeel Khan	6–4, 3–6, 4–6
Loss	0–2	Oct 2008	Nigeria F4, Lagos	Futures	Hard	Kamil Čapkovič	4–6, 6–4, 4–6
Loss	0–3	Jun 2011	India F7, Delhi	Futures	Hard	Patrik Rosenholm	4–6, 4–6

Doubles: 73 (37–36) edit

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	Jul 2006	Romania F11, Târgu Mureș	Futures	Clay	Bogdan-Victor Leonte	Adrian Cruciat Victor Ioniță	4–6, 4–6
Win	1–1	Mar 2007	Nigeria F1, Benin City	Futures	Hard	Navdeep Singh	Guillermo Hormazábal Hans Podlipnik Castillo	6–1, 6–3
Win	2–1	Mar 2007	Nigeria F2, Benin City	Futures	Hard	Navdeep Singh	Bogdan-Victor Leonte Jurgens Strydom	6–4, 6–4
Loss	2–2	May 2007	Kuwait F2, Mishref	Futures	Hard	Navdeep Singh	Thomas Oger Nicolas Tourte	3–6, 2–6
Loss	2–3	Mar 2008	India F4, Gurgaon	Futures	Hard	Vishnu Vardhan	Lee Hsin-han Wang Yu jr.	6–7(4–7), 4–6
Win	3–3	Sep 2008	India F6, Chennai	Futures	Clay	Vishnu Vardhan	Ashutosh Singh Sunil-Kumar Sipaeya	6–3, 4–6, [10–7]
Loss	3–4	Sep 2008	India F7, New Delhi	Futures	Hard	Vishnu Vardhan	Ashutosh Singh Sunil-Kumar Sipaeya	2–6, 2–6
Win	4–4	Oct 2008	Nigeria F3, Lagos	Futures	Hard	Rohan Gajjar	Pavel Chekhov Pavel Katliarov	7–6(8–6), 6–7(2–7), [10–7]
Win	5–4	Mar 2009	India F1, Chandigarh	Futures	Hard	Vishnu Vardhan	Mithun Murali Vijay Sundar Prashanth	4–6, 7–5, [10–7]
Win	6–4	May 2009	India F4, New Delhi	Futures	Hard	Vishnu Vardhan	Tushar Liberhan Vishal Punna	6–1, 6–3
Win	7–4	Jul 2009	India F5, New Delhi	Futures	Hard	Vishnu Vardhan	Rohan Gajjar Purav Raja	6–1, 7–5
Win	8–4	Jul 2009	India F6, New Delhi	Futures	Hard	Vishnu Vardhan	Vivek Shokeen Ashutosh Singh	6–3, 6–4
Loss	8–5	Oct 2009	India F10, Kolkata	Futures	Hard	Vishnu Vardhan	Rohan Gajjar Purav Raja	4–6, 5–7
Win	9–5	Oct 2009	India F11, Pune	Futures	Hard	Vishnu Vardhan	Rohan Gajjar Purav Raja	7–5, 6–3
Loss	0–1	Mar 2010	Kyoto, Japan	Challenger	Carpet (i)	Vishnu Vardhan	Martin Fischer Philipp Oswald	1–6, 2–6
Loss	9–6	Mar 2010	India F1, Kolkata	Futures	Hard	Vishnu Vardhan	Vivek Shokeen Ashutosh Singh	3–6, 2–6
Win	10–6	Apr 2010	India F3, Vijayawada	Futures	Hard	Vishnu Vardhan	Sriram Balaji Vignesh Peranamallur	2–6, 6–3, [10–3]
Win	11–6	Jul 2010	Great Britain F8, Manchester	Futures	Grass	Vishnu Vardhan	Barry King Ashwin Kumar	6–2, 7–5
Loss	11–7	Jul 2010	Great Britain F9, Ilkley	Futures	Grass	Vishnu Vardhan	Andrew Fitzpatrick Josh Goodall	6–3, 5–7, [3–10]
Win	12–7	Jul 2010	Great Britain F11, Chiswick	Futures	Hard	Vishnu Vardhan	James Chaudry George Coupland	6–2, 6–2
Loss	0–2	Aug 2010	Karshi, Uzbekistan	Challenger	Hard	Vishnu Vardhan	Gong Maoxin Li Zhe	3–6, 1–6
Loss	12–8	Oct 2010	Spain F35, Martos	Futures	Hard	Vishnu Vardhan	Agustín Boje-Ordóñez Pablo Martín-Adalia	6–3, 6–7(2–7), [8–10]
Loss	12–9	Jan 2011	Cambodia F1, Phnom Penh	Futures	Hard	Vishnu Vardhan	Danai Udomchoke Kittipong Wachiramanowong	4–6, 4–6
Win	13–9	Mar 2011	Australia F2, Berri	Futures	Grass	Vishnu Vardhan	Chris Letcher Brendan Moore	4–6, 6–3, [10–8]
Win	14–9	Mar 2011	India F1, Mumbai	Futures	Hard	Purav Raja	Gero Kretschmer Alexander Satschko	7–6(7–4), 7–6(7–5)
Win	15–9	Mar 2011	India F2, Kolkata	Futures	Clay	Vishnu Vardhan	Sriram Balaji Ashutosh Singh	7–6(7–1), 7–6(7–5)
Win	16–9	Apr 2011	India F3, Chandigarh	Futures	Hard	Vishnu Vardhan	Lee Hsin-han Bumpei Sato	6–4, 4–6, [10–7]
Win	17–9	Jun 2011	India F7, Delhi	Futures	Hard	Rohan Gajjar	Takuto Niki Vitali Reshetnikov	6–2, 7–6(9–7)
Win	18–9	Jul 2011	France F11, Bourg-en-Bresse	Futures	Clay	Laurent Rochette	Alexandre Folie Florian Reynet	7–6(7–1), 6–0
Win	19–9	Jul 2011	France F12, Saint-Gervais	Futures	Clay	Antal van der Duim	Simon Cauvard Baptiste Dupuy	6–3, 6–2
Win	1–2	Sep 2011	Ningbo, China	Challenger	Hard	Karan Rastogi	Jan Hernych Jürgen Zopp	3–6, 7–6(7–3), [13–11]
Loss	1–3	Oct 2011	Seoul, South Korea	Challenger	Hard	Purav Raja	Sanchai Ratiwatana Sonchat Ratiwatana	4–6, 6–7(3–7)
Loss	1–4	Feb 2012	Burnie, Australia	Challenger	Hard	Vishnu Vardhan	John Peers John-Patrick Smith	2–6, 4–6
Win	2–4	May 2012	Busan, South Korea	Challenger	Hard	Yuki Bhambri	Hsieh Cheng-peng Lee Hsin-han	1–6, 6–1, [10–5]
Loss	2–5	Jul 2012	Penza, Russia	Challenger	Hard	Yuki Bhambri	Konstantin Kravchuk Nikolaus Moser	7–6(7–5), 3–6, [7–10]
Loss	2–6	Aug 2012	Beijing, China	Challenger	Hard	Yuki Bhambri	Sanchai Ratiwatana Sonchat Ratiwatana	6–7(3–7), 6–2, [6–10]
Loss	2–7	Aug 2012	Samarkand, Uzbekistan	Challenger	Clay	Vishnu Vardhan	Oleksandr Nedovyesov Ivan Sergeyev	4–6, 6–7(1–7)
Win	3–7	Sep 2012	Bangkok, Thailand	Challenger	Hard	Vishnu Vardhan	Lee Hsin-han Peng Hsien-yin	6–3, 6–4
Loss	3–8	Sep 2012	Shanghai, China	Challenger	Hard	Yuki Bhambri	Sanchai Ratiwatana Sonchat Ratiwatana	4–6, 4–6
Loss	3–9	Nov 2012	Loughborough, Great Britain	Challenger	Hard (i)	Purav Raja	James Cerretani Adil Shamasdin	4–6, 5–7
Win	4–9	Mar 2013	Kyoto, Japan	Challenger	Carpet (i)	Purav Raja	Chris Guccione Matt Reid	6–4, 7–5
Loss	4–10	Apr 2013	León, Mexico	Challenger	Hard	Purav Raja	Chris Guccione Matt Reid	3–6, 5–7
Loss	4–11	May 2013	Johannesburg, South Africa	Challenger	Hard	Purav Raja	Prakash Amritraj Rajeev Ram	6–7(1–7), 6–7(1–7)
Loss	4–12	Jun 2013	Nottingham, Great Britain	Challenger	Grass	Purav Raja	Sanchai Ratiwatana Sonchat Ratiwatana	7–6(7–5), 6–7(3–7), [8–10]
Loss	4–13	Oct 2013	Tashkent, Uzbekistan	Challenger	Hard	Purav Raja	Mikhail Elgin Teymuraz Gabashvili	4–6, 4–6
Loss	4–14	Feb 2014	Kolkata, India	Challenger	Hard	Vishnu Vardhan	Saketh Myneni Sanam Singh	3–6, 6–3, [4–10]
Win	5–14	Mar 2014	Kyoto, Japan	Challenger	Carpet (i)	Purav Raja	Sanchai Ratiwatana Michael Venus	5–7, 7–6(7–3), [10–4]
Win	6–14	Sep 2014	Shanghai, China	Challenger	Hard	Yuki Bhambri	Somdev Devvarman Sanam Singh	7–6(7–2), 6–7(4–7), [10–8]
Loss	6–15	Oct 2014	Indore, India	Challenger	Hard	Yuki Bhambri	Adrián Menéndez Maceiras Aleksandr Nedovyesov	6–2, 4–6, [3–10]
Loss	6–16	Mar 2015	Shenzhen, China	Challenger	Hard	Saketh Myneni	Gero Kretschmer Alexander Satschko	1–6, 6–3, [2–10]
Loss	6–17	Apr 2015	Sarasota, USA	Challenger	Clay	Chung Hyeon	Facundo Argüello Facundo Bagnis	6–3, 2–6, [11–13]
Win	7–17	Jul 2015	Recanati, Italy	Challenger	Hard	Ken Skupski	Ilija Bozoljac Flavio Cipolla	4–6, 7–6(7–3), [10–6]
Win	8–17	Sep 2015	Izmir, Turkey	Challenger	Hard	Saketh Myneni	Malek Jaziri Denys Molchanov	7–6(7–5), 4–6, [0–1] ret.
Loss	8–18	Oct 2015	Pune, India	Challenger	Hard	Maximilian Neuchrist	Gerard Granollers Adrián Menéndez Maceiras	6–1, 3–6, [6–10]
Loss	8–19	Apr 2016	Savannah, USA	Challenger	Clay	Purav Raja	Brian Baker Ryan Harrison	7–5, 6–7(4–7), [8–10]
Win	9–19	Jun 2016	Manchester, Great Britain	Challenger	Grass	Purav Raja	Ken Skupski Neal Skupski	6–3, 3–6, [11–9]
Win	10–19	Jun 2016	Surbiton, Great Britain	Challenger	Grass	Purav Raja	Ken Skupski Neal Skupski	6–4, 7–6(7–3)
Win	11–19	Jul 2016	Segovia, Spain	Challenger	Hard	Purav Raja	Quino Muñoz Akira Santillan	6–3, 4–6, [10–8]
Win	12–19	Oct 2016	Pune, India	Challenger	Hard	Purav Raja	Luca Margaroli Hugo Nys	3–6, 6–3, [11–9]
Loss	12–20	Nov 2016	Bratislava, Slovakia	Challenger	Hard (i)	Purav Raja	Ken Skupski Neal Skupski	6–4, 3–6, [5–10]
Win	13–20	May 2017	Bordeaux, France	Challenger	Clay	Purav Raja	Santiago González Artem Sitak	6–4, 6–4
Loss	13–21	Oct 2017	Tashkent, Uzbekistan	Challenger	Hard	Yuki Bhambri	Hans Podlipnik Castillo Andrei Vasilevski	4–6, 2–6
Loss	13–22	Oct 2017	Brest, France	Challenger	Hard (i)	Scott Clayton	Sander Arends Antonio Šančić	4–6, 5–7
Win	14–22	Nov 2017	Bangalore, India	Challenger	Hard	Mikhail Elgin	Ivan Sabanov Matej Sabanov	6–3, 6–0
Win	15–22	Jan 2018	Canberra, Australia	Challenger	Hard	Jonathan Erlich	Hans Podlipnik Castillo Andrei Vasilevski	7–6(7–1), 6–2
Win	16–22	Sep 2019	Jinan, China	Challenger	Hard	Matthew Ebden	Nam Ji-sung Song Min-kyu	7–6(7–4), 5–7, [10–3]
Loss	16–23	Sep 2020	Prostějov, Czech Republic	Challenger	Clay	Sriram Balaji	Zdeněk Kolář Lukáš Rosol	2–6, 6–2, [6–10]
Loss	16–24	Apr 2022	Aguascalientes, Mexico	Challenger	Clay	Gonçalo Oliveira	Nicolás Barrientos Miguel Ángel Reyes-Varela	5-7, 3-6
Loss	16–25	Jul 2022	Indianapolis, USA	Challenger	Hard (i)	Purav Raja	Hans Hach Verdugo Hunter Reese	6-7(3-7), 6–3, [7-10]
Win	17–25	Sep 2022	Istanbul, Turkey	Challenger	Hard	Purav Raja	Arjun Kadhe Fernando Romboli	6–4, 3–6, [10–8]
Loss	17–26	Oct 2022	Mouilleron-le-Captif, France	Challenger	Hard (i)	Purav Raja	Sander Arends David Pel	7–6(7–1), 6–7(6–8), [6–10]
Win	18–26	Nov 2022	Helsinki, Finland	Challenger	Hard (i)	Purav Raja	Reese Stalder Petros Tsitsipas	6–7(5–7), 6–3, [10–8]
Loss	18–27	Mar 2023	Les Franqueses del Vallès, Spain	Challenger	Hard	Purav Raja	Anirudh Chandrasekar Vijay Sundar Prashanth	5–7, 1–6

Current through the 2021 US Open

• Divij Sharan at the Association of Tennis Professionals
• Divij Sharan at the International Tennis Federation
• Divij Sharan at the Davis Cup