Tennis

18-time Grand Slam doubles/mixed doubles champion; record 7 Olympic appearances.

First Indian to win a Grand Slam (1997 French Open mixed doubles).

Australian Open 2024 champion; oldest male No. 1 in ATP doubles history.

Six-time Grand Slam champion and former doubles world No. 1.

First Indian man in seven years to win a Grand Slam main-draw match, courtesy of his 2020 US Open first-round victory (the first since Somdev Devvarman in 2013). At the Tokyo 2020 Olympics he won his opening match before exiting in the second round; at Paris 2024 he lost in the opening round (round of 64) to France's Corentin Moutet.

Akhtar Ali (Urdu: اختر علی) (5 July 1939 – 7 February 2021), was an Indian tennis player. He was a member of the Indian Davis Cup team continuously from 1958 to 1964 and captain of Indian Davis Cup in 2008.

Anand Amritraj (born 20 March 1951) is an Indian former tennis player and businessman. He, along with brother Vijay Amritraj, led India into the 1974 Davis Cup finals against South Africa, and was a part of the Indian team captained by Vijay Amritraj which reached the final of the Davis Cup in 1987 against Sweden.

Anirudh Chandrasekar (born 11 July 1998) is an Indian tennis player who specializes in doubles. He has a career high ATP doubles ranking of No. 84 achieved on 24 August 2026 and a singles ranking of No.

Ankita Bhambri (Hindi: अंकिता भाम्बरी; born 28 October 1986) is an Indian former professional tennis player and coach. Her career-high singles ranking is world No. 332, which she achieved in May 2006.

Ankita Raina (born 11 January 1993) is an Indian tennis player. Since 2018, she has regularly been India's number one female player in singles and doubles. Raina has won one title on the WTA Tour and one WTA 125 title (both in doubles), along with 11 singles and 33 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit.

Anu Peshawaria (born 5 September 1961) is an Indian-American US Immigration lawyer, author, activist, and philanthropist having founded several non profits and a former Wimbledon tennis player from the United States. Her legal work focuses on immigrant rights, domestic violence, women's rights, and children's rights, and she has practiced immigration law before the Supreme Court of the United States, Supreme Court of Washington, and Supreme Court of India. She was the first legal advisor appointed by the Govt of India to the US Embassy in Washington DC.

Archana Venkataraman (born 30 August 1988) is an Indian former professional tennis player. Venkataraman has career-high WTA rankings of 549 in singles, achieved on 18 December 2000, and 510 in doubles, set on 13 November 2006. In her career, she won three singles and six doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit.

Arjun Kadhe (Marathi: अर्जुन कढे; born 7 January 1994) is an Indian tennis player who specializes in doubles. He has a career high ATP doubles ranking of world No. 76 achieved on 28 October 2024.

Ashok Amritraj (born 22 February 1956) is an Indian-American athlete and film producer. He is chairman and CEO of the Hyde Park Entertainment Group and was formerly CEO of National Geographic Films. He played tennis professionally in his youth, one of the Indians in the top levels of the sport.

Ashutosh Singh (born 25 September 1982) is a former professional tennis player from India.

Ashvarya Shrivastava (Aiśvaryā Śrīvāstav; born 19 February 1992) is a former professional tennis player from India. She formerly played for the India Fed Cup team. Her career-high singles ranking is No.

Asif Ismail (born 30 September 1970) is a former tennis player who has the rare distinction of representing two countries in the Davis Cup, first India and later Hong Kong.

Chandril Sood (born 20 February 1991) is an Indian tennis player. Sood has a career high ATP singles ranking of No. 908 achieved on 21 December 2015 and a career high ATP doubles ranking of No.

Cotah Ramaswami – sometimes written as Cota or Cotar – (born 16 June 1896, presumed to have died in January 1990) was a double sports international who represented India in cricket and tennis.

Dhakshineswar Suresh Ekambaram (born 29 March 2000) is an Indian tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 353 achieved on 27 July 2026 and a doubles ranking of No.

Dilip Kumar Bose (28 May 1921 – 30 December 1996) was an Indian professional tennis player. He was a winner of the Asian Championships and a member of the India Davis Cup team. After retirement, he served as a coach and administrator.

Divij Sharan (born 2 March 1986) is an Indian professional tennis player. He specialises in doubles and competes on the ATP World Tour. He has won five ATP doubles titles and represents India in the Davis Cup.

Donald Ross Rutnam (19 September 1902 – 10 June 1968) was an Indian civil servant and sportsman of Anglo-Ceylonese origin. He was a member of the Ceylon Civil Service and served as the Deputy Commissioner of the Central Provinces and Berar. He represented India in Tennis at the 1924 Summer Olympics and at the Wimbledon Championships.

Edward Vivian Bobb (27 July 1902 – 1974) also known as E.V. Bobb was an Indian tennis player who competed at the 1928 Wimbledon Championships. He was active from 1921 to 1940 and won 21 career singles titles.

Gaurav Natekar (born 4 April 1972) is a seven-time Indian National Tennis Champion. He was awarded the Arjuna Award in 1996 for Tennis. His wife, Arati Ponnappa, was also a national level tennis player.

Ghaus Mohammad Khan (2 November 1915 – 1982) was an Indian tennis player from Malihabad. He was the first Indian to reach the quarterfinals at Wimbledon, achieved in 1939 where he lost to second-seeded and eventual champion Bobby Riggs. With compatriot Iftikar Ahmed he reached the third round in the doubles event in 1947.

Harsh Mankad (born 10 November 1979) is a former world ranked ATP Professional tennis player from India. He played Davis Cup for India between 2001–2010 and was the No. 1 singles player on the team for several of those years.

Hassan-Ali Fyzee (9 October 1879 – 1 January 1962) was an Indian tennis, badminton, and table tennis player.

Isha Lakhani (born 29 April 1985) is an Indian former professional tennis player.

Shaik Jafreen (born 7 September 1997) is a deaf Indian tennis player. She represented India at the Deaflympics in 2013 and 2017. She claimed a bronze medal in the mixed doubles at the 2017 Summer Deaflympics partnering with Prithvi Sekhar.

Jaidip Mukerjea (Bengali: জয়দীপ মুখোপাধ্যায়; born 21 April 1942) is a retired professional tennis player from India.

Jasjit Singh (born 4 February 1948) is a former professional tennis player from India.

Jayakumar Royappa was an Indian professional tennis player. P. Royappa.

Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (born 20 October 1988) is an Indian professional tennis player. He has a career-high ATP doubles ranking of No. 64 achieved on 18 March 2019.

Jenny Sandison (born 1910) was an Anglo-Indian tennis player. She was born at Kharagpur, Bengal (now West Bengal, India).

Karan Rastogi (born 8 October 1986) is an Indian tennis player, who also represented Hong Kong in international competitions. He started playing tennis at the age of 3. 1 in all age groups in India from the under 12s to the under 18s.

Karan Singh (born 30 June 2003) is an Indian tennis player. Singh has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 388 achieved on 8 August 2025.

Karman Kaur Thandi (born 16 June 1998) is an Indian professional tennis player. She is a former Indian number one in singles. Thandi's career-high WTA rankings was No.

Khanum Singh (née Haji) (Urdu: خانم حاجی) was an Indian tennis player from Hyderabad. She was the women's four-time champion at the National Lawn Tennis Championships of India from 1947 to 1949, and 1957.

Khawaja Iftikhar Ahmed was a Pakistani tennis player who played for British India before independence and for Pakistan after independence. He was one of the highest ranked players in India from 1940 to 1946, and later retained the position in Pakistan from 1947 to 1956 after the split of Indian subcontinent. He retired from the professional sports in 1962.

Kiran Bedi (born 9 June 1949) is a former tennis player who became the first Indian woman to join the officer ranks of the Indian Police Service (IPS) in 1972 and was the 24th lieutenant governor of Puducherry from 28 May 2016 to 16 February 2021. She remained in service for 35 years before taking voluntary retirement in 2007 as Director General, Bureau of Police Research and Development. As a teenager, Bedi was crowned the national junior tennis champion in 1966.

Kyra Shroff (born 17 October 1992) is an Indian former professional tennis player. She has career-high WTA rankings of 470 in singles, achieved on 4 March 2013, and 358 in doubles, reached on 30 January 2017. Shroff won ten ITF doubles titles.

Lakshit Sood (born 20 February 1991) is an Indian professional tennis player and a padel athlete. He has represented India in international competitions. Lakshit with his twin brother, Chandril Sood, have played as a doubles pairs in ITF and ATP tournaments.

Leela Row Dayal (19 December 1911 – 19 May 1964) was a female tennis player and author from India. She was the first female Indian tennis player to win a match at the Wimbledon Championships. She wrote several books on Indian classical dance in both English and Sanskrit.

Maaya Rajeshwaran Revathi (born 12 June 2009) is an Indian tennis player. She trains at the Rafa Nadal Academy.

Mahak Jain (born 24 June 2001) is an Indian former professional tennis player. She plays college tennis for the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets. Mahak has a career-high singles ranking by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) of 511, achieved on 18 February 2019.

Malikaa Marathe (born 30 April 2003) is an Indian tennis player.

Man-Mohan Bhandari (born 26 February 1913, date of death unknown) was an Indian tennis player. He competed at the Wimbledon Championships twice, in 1934 and 1936. He was active from 1930 to 1942 contesting 3 career singles finals and won 1 title.

SAI's TAGG division was disbanded in May 2026; the programme was built for the 2026 Asian Games. The Target Asian Games Group (TAGG) was a Sports Authority of India high-performance programme, modelled on the Target Olympic Podium Scheme (TOPS), that gave individualised support to medal prospects for the 2026 Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan. It was launched in 2025 with 37 athletes in 16 disciplines, 10 Olympic and 6 non-Olympic, and the Mission Olympic Cell added athletes later, for example in tennis, taekwondo, karate, gymnastics and soft tennis. TAGG did not replace TOPS; it focused on sports where India has regional potential but has yet to convert it into Olympic success. On 19 May 2026 SAI's Director General re-arranged its divisions and disbanded the TAGG division; its work was redistributed between the TOPS division, which now manages 27 disciplines and the participation coordination for the Olympic, Asian and Commonwealth Games, and the Training of Elite Athletes and Management Support (TEAMS) division, which handles para, winter and non-Olympic disciplines. The Asian Games 2026 were held in September and October 2026. Check with SAI whether TAGG-style support continues.

On 8 September 2026 the Maharashtra Cabinet approved a revised policy for the 5 per cent parallel reservation for meritorious sportspersons in direct recruitment in state government and semi-government bodies. Sports included in at least three consecutive Summer Olympic Games after 2005 qualify, and Kabaddi, Kho-Kho, Chess, Mallakhamb and Cricket have been added as regional sports. Under the revised policy, sports certificates must be verified through a digital Sports E-Certificate system within three months, and earlier government resolutions on the quota were rescinded.

Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC), a Government of India enterprise, gives monthly scholarships to economically weaker young sportspersons who have the potential to excel in sport, in games including badminton, boxing, wrestling, kabaddi, chess, athletics and para sports. This is a public-sector company scheme, not a government department scheme. A scholarship is awarded for one year and can be extended up to two years based on annual performance. The number of scholarships is fixed game by game; for the 2025-26 round, for example, badminton had 6 (3 for men and 3 for women) and kabaddi had 20.

A flagship annual multi-disciplinary grassroots event held to identify and nurture young sporting talent at the school and college level across India.

Under instructions of the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT), central government ministries and departments can directly recruit meritorious sportspersons to Group C posts (including erstwhile Group D) that are filled by direct recruitment, in relaxation of the normal recruitment procedure. The list of qualifying sports has 65 disciplines (63 listed in 2020, with Tennis Ball Cricket added in January 2021 and Yogasana in June 2022). Kudo, Karate, Taekwondo, Golf, Judo, Boxing, Wrestling, Badminton, Cricket and Tennis are among them. Railways and a few scientific and atomic-energy services follow separate rules.

This is a federation policy, not a government scheme. Policy of the All India Tennis Association, approved by its Executive Committee and AGM on 30 September 2026 and effective from 1 January 2027, to identify talented junior players and recommend them for financial, technical, training, competition and welfare support from AITA, government agencies, public-sector organisations, sponsors and other approved partners. Selection is not based on ranking alone: it also considers performance, potential, physical and mental readiness, doubles ability and, where merit is comparable, financial need. Selected players are placed in five groups: National Performance, National Development, Regional Development, Emerging Talent and Doubles Development.

ONGC, a public-sector company, invited online applications for its Sports Scholarship Scheme 2026-27 in the Podium Aspirants category, with a monthly scholarship of ₹40,000 to ₹70,000. The notice was published by the All India Tennis Association on 8 September 2026. The AITA notice does not list the sports covered; confirm the eligible sports with ONGC. This is a public-sector company scheme, not a government department scheme. It is separate from the ONGC scholarship round for younger players covered in the ONGC Sports Scholarship Scheme entry.

Allows the general public and budding athletes to use SAI's world-class stadium facilities in Delhi and other regional centers for a nominal fee.