Sriram Narayanaswamy Balaji (born 18 March 1990) is a professional Indian
tennis player. Balaji has a career high ATP singles ranking of 287, achieved on
19 June 2017. He is currently a member of the Indian Davis Cup team.Played his
debut Davis cup partnering Rohan Bopanna in March 2017 making India win 3-0 and
enter into Davis Cup World Play off. Another Kamma player in Indian Davis cup squad is Saketh Myneni.
Balaji started playing tennis at age 9. He also has a career
high ATP doubles ranking of 180 achieved on 26 June 2017. Balaji has won a
total of 9 ITF singles titles on the futures circuit as well as 43 ITF Futures
and 1 Challenger doubles titles on the futures circuit.
Sriram was born to Narayanaswamy and Jayanthi Narayanaswamy
in Coimbatore. He started playing tennis at the age of Nine years. He succeeded
his schooling from Kendriya Vidyalaya and PERKS Matriculation Higher Secondary
School in Coimbatore. He started his tennis career at PERKS Tennis Academy,
Coimbatore.He is currently getting trained at Schüttler-Waske Tennis University
in Germany. His hobbies are swimming and reading books.His favorite tennis
player is Roger Federer.
Represented India for the Nike International Masters Tennis
Tournament held at Sun City, South Africa during November 2002 and Won Three
Countries and obtained ninth position in the Team event.
Ranked No.1 in National Level Competition Under 14 age
Category during April – September 2004.
Represented India for the Asia/Oceania Qualifying, World
Junior Tennis Competition held at Melbourne, Australia during MAY 10 – 15,
2004. 16 Countries participated and obtained 11th Position in Team event.
Represented India for Junior Davis Cup Tournament held at
Kuching, Malaysia during April 2006.
Participated in 15th Asian Games, Youth Camp during 28
November to 9th December 2006 held at Doha, Qatar.
Balaji made his ATP main draw debut at the 2012 Aircel
Chennai Open in the doubles event, partnering Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan. The
wildcard pairing put up a good fight, but lost to the second seeds Scott Lipsky
and Rajeev Ram 5–7, 4–6.
At the 2014 Aircel Chennai Open, Balaji was given a wildcard
into the doubles event with Ramkumar Ramanathan. The Indian pair defeated
Lipsky and Ram, who Balaji had lost to in 2012, 7–5, 6–3. In the quarterfinals
the pair lost to Croatian-duo Marin Draganja and Mate Pavić, 3–6, 3–6.
Balaji has joined Mumbai Tennis Masters team for Champions
Tennis League India.
Singles:
Highest ranking No. 287
Current ranking No. 289
Doubles:
Highest ranking No. 166
Current ranking No. 166
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