Divij Sharan

 ( 1986 Births ) 

Divij Sharan (born 2 March 1986) is an Indian professional tennis player. He specialises in doubles and competes on the ATP Tour. He has won five ATP doubles titles and represents India in the Davis Cup. He won a gold medal in the men's doubles at the 2018 Asian Games.

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Early and Personal life 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.

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Junior career 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.

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Professional career

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Early years 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.

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2012: Breakthrough 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.

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

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2014: Asian Games medal 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.

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2015: Out of top 100 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 and the Izmir Challenger with compatriot Saketh Myneni. He played only a singles match at ATP World Tour level and lost it. He finished the year ranked 134 as a doubles player.

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2016: Second ATP title, back to top 100 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. Sharan finished the year with doubles ranking of No. 63.

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2017: Entry into the top 50 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. 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.

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 and Bengaluru Open 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.

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

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

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2019: Fourth and fifth titles 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.

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ATP career finals

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

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Grand Slam tournaments (0–0)

ATP World Tour Finals (0–0)

ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (0–0)

ATP World Tour 500 Series (0–0)

ATP World Tour 250 Series (5–2)

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Hard (5–1)

Clay (0–1)

Grass (0–0)

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Outdoor (3–2)

Indoor (2–0)

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Win	1–0		Colombia Open, Colombia	250 Series	Hard	Purav Raja	Édouard Roger-Vasselin Igor Sijsling	7–6(7–4), 7–6(7–3)
Win	2–0		Los Cabos Open, Mexico	250 Series	Hard	Purav Raja	Jonathan Erlich Ken Skupski	7–6(7–4), 7–6(7–3)
Loss	2–1		Maharashtra Open, India	250 Series	Hard	Purav Raja	Rohan Bopanna Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan	3–6, 4–6
Win	3–1		European Open, Belgium	250 Series	Hard (i)	Scott Lipsky	Santiago González Julio Peralta	6–4, 2–6, 10–5
Win	4–1		Maharashtra Open, India	250 Series	Hard	Rohan Bopanna	Luke Bambridge Jonny O'Mara	6–3, 6–4
Loss	4–2		Bavarian Championships, Germany	250 Series	Clay	Marcelo Demoliner	Frederik Nielsen Tim Pütz	4–6, 2–6
Win	5–2		St. Petersburg Open, Russia	250 Series	Hard (i)	Igor Zelenay	Matteo Berrettini Simone Bolelli	6–3, 3–6, 10–8

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Challenger and Futures finals

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Singles: 3 (0–3)

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ATP Challenger Tour (0–0)

ITF Futures Tour (0–3)

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Hard (0–2)

Clay (0–0)

Grass (0–1)

Carpet (0–0)

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Loss	0–1		Pakistan F2, Lahore	Futures	Grass	Aqeel Khan	6–4, 3–6, 4–6
Loss	0–2		Nigeria F4, Lagos	Futures	Hard	Kamil Čapkovič	4–6, 6–4, 4–6
Loss	0–3		India F7, Delhi	Futures	Hard	Patrik Rosenholm	4–6, 4–6

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Doubles: 73 (37–36)

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ATP Challenger Tour (18–27)

ITF Futures Tour (19–9)

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Hard (26–27)

Clay (5–6)

Grass (4–2)

Carpet (2–1)

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

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Doubles performance timeline Current through the 2021 US Open

Australian Open	A	1R	A	A	1R	3R	1R	2R	1R	0 / 6	3–6
French Open	A	1R	A	A	3R	2R	2R	1R	1R	0 / 6	4–6
Wimbledon	1R	1R	A	A	2R	QF	3R	NH	1R	0 / 6	6–6
US Open	3R	A	A	A	1R	2R	1R	2R	1R	0 / 6	3–6
Win–loss	2–2	0–3	0–0	0–0	3–4	7–4	3–4	1–3	0–4	0 / 24	16–24

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