Who is the highest ranked Indian tennis player?

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Rahul Iyer
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Indian tennis has been enjoying a good run of late. Some of the achievements in the last few months include the following.

Rohan Bopanna achieved a World No 3 ranking at the age of 43 in the men's doubles category in July, his best ranking for a decade.

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Sumit Nagal won the ATP Challenger title in Tampere, breaking into the world's top 200 players. This was followed up by Karman Kaur Thandi's ITF event win in Evansville, which qualified her for the US Open qualifying round.

Nagal then began 2024 in stunning fashion, upsetting 31st seed Alexander Bublik in the Australian Open first round.

But at this moment, who is the top-ranked Indian tennis player?

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Who is the highest ranked Indian men's tennis player?

In the men's singles category, there is only one Indian in the top 150 players in the world. Sumit Nagal is the highest ranked player at No 137 in the world.

Top 5 Indian men's singles players
India RankWorld RankNameAgePoints
1137Sumit Nagal26450
2463Ramkumar Ramanathan2991
3554Mukund Sasikumar2768
4612Digvijaypratap Singh2356
5614S D Prajwal Dev2756

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In the doubles category, Rohan Bopanna flies the flag for India with a world ranking of 3.

Top 5 Indian men's doubles players
India RankWorld RankNameAgePoints
13Rohan Bopanna436450
261Yuki Bhambri311370
379N. Sriram Balaji331052
483Vijay Sundar Prashanth37981
587Anirudh Chandrasekar25955

 

 

Who is the highest ranked Indian women's tennis player?

After her recent success, Karman Kaur Thandi is the second-best Indian women's singles player, behind Ankita Raina who is still the only player ranked better than 250.

Top 5 Indian women's singles players
India RankWorld RankNameAgePoints
1223Ankita Raina31347
2333Karman Thandi25200
3336Sahaja Yamalapalli22197
4357Rutuja Bhosale27180
5501Vaidehi Chaudhari23104

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In the women's doubles category, Prarthana Thombare is the top-ranked Indian player and the only one ranked better than No 200 in the world.

Top 5 Indian women's doubles players
India RankWorld RankNameAgePoints
1166Prarthana Thombare29551
2206Ankita Raina31433
3235Rutuja Bhosale27379
4309Vasanti Shinde26274
5348Vaidehi Chaudhari23243