India's athletes, on one page.
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Manas Dhamne
Manas Dhamne (born 29 December 2007) is an Indian professional tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 362 achieved on 3 August 2026 and a doubles ranking of No.
Manisha Malhotra
Manisha Malhotra (Hindi: मनीषा मल्होत्रा Manīṣā Maľhōtrā; born 19 September 1976) is a former professional tennis player from India. Her career high in singles is 314, achieved on 21 April 2003. In doubles, she peaked at No.
Mark Ferreira
Mark Ferreira (born 1 March 1967) is a former professional tennis player from India. He is the son of former Indian billiards player Michael Ferreira.
Meghha Vakaria
Meghha Vakaria (born 28 August 1984) is an Indian former tennis player. Vakaria has a career-high singles ranking of 381 by the WTA, achieved on 5 July 2004. She also has a career-high WTA doubles ranking of 383, attained on 19 July 2004.
Mohammed Sleem
Mohammed Sleem (14 January 1892 – around 1980) was a tennis player and lawyer who represented India at the Davis Cup and Olympic Games. He competed in the singles event at the 1924 Summer Olympics, reaching the third round in which he lost to eventual Olympic champion Vincent Richards. With compatriot Sydney Jacob he competed in the men's doubles event and lost in the first round.
Mohit Mayur Jayaprakash
Mohit Mayur Jakaprakash (born 14 September 1993) is an Indian tennis player. Jayaprakash has a career high ATP singles ranking of No. 577 achieved on 1 February 2016 and a career high ATP doubles ranking of No.
Mustafa Ghouse
Mustafa Ghouse (born 19 August 1980) is the Chief Executive Officer of JSW Sports, the sports vertical of The JSW Group. The JSW Group owns and operates Indian Super League club Bengaluru FC and Pro-Kabaddi League team Haryana Steelers. Ghouse is also the Director at JSW Sports' Indian Premier League franchise Delhi Capitals and recently also became owner of Punjab Franchise of Hockey India League 2024 to start from December last.
Narendra Nath
Narendra Nath (5 May 1922 — 25 August 1999) was an Indian tennis player. Nath, an All-India hard court champion from Lahore, competed on tour in the 1940s and 1950s. In 1950 he won the Surrey Championships, beating reigning champion Czesław Spychała in the final.
Naresh Kumar
Naresh Kumar (22 December 1928 – 14 September 2022) was an Indian tennis player. He was the playing captain of the India Davis Cup team from 1955 to 1960. He was the non-playing captain of the India Davis Cup team from 1989 to 1993.
Natasha Palha
Natasha Palha (born 17 January 1994) is an Indian former tennis player. She was the Indian National Grass Court Tennis champion in 2014. In her career, Palha won five doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit.
Nirupama Mankad
Nirupama Mankad (née Vasant; born 17 January 1947) is a former Indian tennis player. She is the first Indian woman in the modern era to play at a main draw of a Grand Slam. She was one of the torch runners in the most famous spirit of freedom video that played on Indian television in the 1980’s.
Nirupama Sanjeev
Nirupama Sanjeev (née Vaidyanathan; born 8 December 1976) is an Indian former professional tennis player. In the 1998 Australian Open, Sanjeev became the second Indian woman (after Nirupama Mankad) in the Open era to feature in a major main draw, the first one in singles, and the first to win a major match, defeating Gloria Pizzichini. She also won the bronze medal at the 1998 Bangkok Asian Games in mixed doubles, partnering Mahesh Bhupathi.
Nitin Kirtane
Nitin Kirtane (born 4 March 1974) is an Indian professional tennis player. Kirtane won the gold medal at the 2002 National Games of India and along with Mahesh Bhupathi was the runner-up at the 1992 boys Wimbledon Championship.
Nora Polley
Nora Margaret Polley (née Fischer; 29 July 1894 – 1988) was the first woman to represent India at the Summer Olympics when she competed in the tennis events at the 1924 Summer Olympics. Nora Fischer was born in Budaun, British India, records show that in 1901 she was living in Scotland before going to boarding school in Eastbourne in 1911, she would later marry Sydney Trepess Polley in 1915, who had been serving in the Indian Army since 1902 and would later be promoted to Major.
Padmapriya Ramesh
Padmapriya Ramesh (born 30 May 2012) is an Indian professional junior tennis player who plays for the national team.
Phyllis Cox Berthoud
Phyllis Cox Berthoud (8 April 1887 – 1975) was an Anglo-Indian tennis player from Bengal, British India. She participated in the Indian Open tennis tournaments between 1918 and 1923. Her entry into a Grand Slam event in 1920 for the Wimbledon singles draw was the first for an Indian woman.
Poojashree Venkatesha
Poojashree Venkatesha (born 27 July 1990) is an Indian former tennis player, primarily competing on the ITF Women's Circuit. She won a silver medal for her native country in the women's singles event at the 2008 Commonwealth Youth Games.
Prajnesh Gunneswaran
Prajnesh Gunneswaran (born 12 November 1989) is an Indian former professional tennis player. He reached a career high ATP singles ranking of No. 75 in 2019.
Prakash Amritraj
Prakash Amritraj (born October 2, 1983) is an Indian-American former professional tennis player, who represented India in international tournaments. He is the son of former Indian tennis player Vijay Amritraj.
Pranjala Yadlapalli
Pranjala Yadlapalli (born 30 March 1999) is an Indian inactive tennis player. On 13 May 2019, she achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 265.
Prarthana Thombare
Prarthana Gulabrao Thombare (born 18 June 1994) is an Indian tennis player. A doubles specialist, she is the former Indian number one in women's doubles, and an Olympian.
Premjit Lall
Premjit Lall (20 October 1940 – 31 December 2008) was an Indian professional tennis player from Kolkata, who was active during the 1960s and 70s.
Prerna Bhambri
Prerna Bhambri (born 12 September 1992) is an Indian former tennis player. Prerna Bhambri holds the record of being the only Indian to have won the All India National Tennis Championship four times in a row, and was a runner-up in 2019. She received the Award for Excellence in Sports from Pratibha Patil, the former president of India.
Prithvi Sekhar
Prithvi Sekhar (born 3 October 1993) is an Indian male deaf tennis player. He represented India at the Deaflympics in 2013 and 2017. He won a bronze medal in the mixed doubles at the 2017 Summer Deaflympics partnering with Jafreen Shaik.
Punam Reddy
Punam Reddy (born 25 June 1987) is an American former professional tennis player. In 2005, her only WTA Tour main-draw appearance came at the Kolkata Open when she partnered with countrywoman Ragini Vimal in the doubles event. They lost in the first round to Sania Mirza and Virginia Ruano Pascual.
Purav Raja
Purav Raja (POOR-av RAH-jə; born 7 December 1985) is a former Indian professional tennis player. He specializes in doubles and competes on the ATP World Tour. He has won two ATP doubles titles and represents India in the Davis Cup.
Radhika Tulpule
Radhika Tulpule (born 9 February 1982) is an Indian former professional tennis player. Tulpule has a career-high singles ranking by the WTA of 473, achieved on 17 September 2001. She also has a career-high WTA doubles ranking of 438, attained on 14 April 2003.
Ramanathan Krishnan
Ramanathan Krishnan (born 11 April 1937) is a retired tennis player from India who was among the world's leading players in the 1950s and 1960s. He was twice a semifinalist at Wimbledon in 1960 and 1961, reaching as high as World No. 3 in Potter's amateur rankings.
Ramesh Krishnan
Ramesh Krishnan (Hindi pronunciation: [rəmeːʃ kr̩ʂɳən]; born 5 June 1961) is an Indian tennis coach and former professional tennis player. As a junior player in the late 1970s, he won the singles titles at both, Wimbledon and the French Open. He went on to reach three Grand Slam quarterfinals in the 1980s and was a part of the Indian team captained by Vijay Amritraj which reached the final of the Davis Cup in 1987 against Sweden.
Ramkumar Ramanathan
Ramanathan Ramkumar (born 8 November 1994) is an Indian professional tennis player. He has been ranked as high as world No. 111 in singles by the ATP, which he achieved in July 2018, and in doubles at No.
Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan
Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan (born 30 September 1985) is an Indian tennis player. Virali-Murugesan has a career high ATP singles ranking of 417 achieved on 24 May 2010 and a career high ATP doubles ranking of 268, achieved on 11 August 2014. Virali-Murugesan has won one ITF singles title and eighteen ITF doubles titles.
Rekha Boyalapalli
Rekha Boyalapalli (born 5 April 1986) is an Indian tennis player.
Rishika Sunkara
Rishika Sunkara (born 14 May 1993) is an Indian former tennis player. In her career, she won 12 titles on the ITF Circuit; two in singles and ten in doubles (four in 2015 of which three were won with Sowjanya Bavisetti). On 9 November 2015, she reached her career-high singles ranking of world No.
Rita Davar
Rita Davar (born 3 June 1935) is an Indian tennis player. She was the first Indian to reach the tennis Grand Slam finals. Davar lost to Fenny ten Bosch in the 1952 Junior-Girls Wimbledon Championship with the 5–7, 6–1, 7–5 scores.
Rithvik Choudary Bollipalli
Rithvik Choudary Bollipalli (born 17 January 2001) is an Indian tennis player. He has a career-high ATP doubles ranking of No. 65 achieved on 3 March 2025.
Riya Bhatia
Riya Bhatia (Hindi: रिया भाटिया; born 24 September 1997) is an Indian professional tennis player. Formerly ranked No. 2 in India, Bhatia has career-high WTA rankings of 338 in singles, achieved on 2 March 2020, and 177 in doubles, reached on 15 December 2025.
Rushmi Chakravarthi
Rushmi Chakravarthi (Telugu: రుష్మి చక్రవర్తి; born 9 October 1977) is an Indian former professional tennis player. She won a record 52 ITF titles, the highest number set by an Indian female player. She turned professional, after playing in the first round of the WTA Tour tournament Sunfeast Open, held at Kolkata in September 2005.
Rutuja Bhosale
Rutuja Sampatrao Bhosale (born 27 March 1996) is an Indian tennis player. She made her debut for India Fed Cup team in 2012, the same year, she achieved her highest junior ranking of world No. 55. Bhosale, the former Indian number one in the WTA doubles rankings, attended Texas A&M University and graduated with a degree in Human Resources and Tourism management in 2017.
Sahaja Yamalapalli
Sahaja Yamalapalli (born 29 October 2000) is an Indian tennis player. She is India's number one in women's tennis. She has career-high rankings of world No.
Sai Jayalakshmy Jayaram
Sai Jayalakshmy Jayaram (born 16 February 1977 in Chennai) is a former professional female tennis player. In her career, she won seven singles and 34 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. On 25 December 2000, she reached her best singles ranking of world No.
Saketh Myneni
Saketh Myneni (born 19 October 1987) is an Indian professional tennis player. He has a career-high doubles ranking of No. 74 achieved on 16 January 2023.
Salsa Aher
Salsa Aher is an Indian tennis player from Pune, India. In 2019 she became the top-ranked junior player in India. She was introduced to tennis at the young age of 6 years by her father.
Sanaa Bhambri
Sanaa Bhambri (Hindi: सना भाम्बरी; born 7 March 1988) is a former professional tennis player from India. Her highest doubles ranking is world No. 298, which she achieved October 2005.
Sanam Singh
Sanam Krishan Singh (born 11 January 1988) is a former Indian tennis player. Singh won the doubles gold medal and the bronze in the team event at the 2010 Asian Games. He added another Asian Games medal to his tally by winning the Silver medal in Doubles in the 2014 Asian Games held at Incheon.
Sandeep Kirtane
Sandeep Kirtane (born 27 October 1973) is an Indian professional tennis player. He made his ATP Tour debut at the 1996 India Open, where he lost in the 1st round to Sandon Stolle.
Sandhya Nagaraj
Sandhya Nagaraj (born 30 August 1988) is an Indian former professional tennis player. Nagaraj has career-high WTA rankings of 511 in singles, achieved on 17 July 2006, and 581 in doubles, set on 14 May 2007. She won one singles and two doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit.
Sashi Menon
Sashi Menon (born 9 August 1952) is an Indian former professional tennis player. He was active from 1970 to 1984 and played over 700 matches and won 4 career singles titles, in addition he also won 3 doubles titles.
Sasikumar Mukund
Mukund Sasikumar (born 14 January 1997) is an Indian tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 229 achieved on 17 October 2019.