{"id":2813,"date":"2012-03-01T14:28:28","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T14:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=2813"},"modified":"2012-03-01T14:28:28","modified_gmt":"2012-03-01T14:28:28","slug":"somdev-devvarman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=2813","title":{"rendered":"Somdev Devvarman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/somdev_devvarman.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"somdev_devvarman\" title=\"somdev_devvarman\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" style=\"float: left; border: 2px solid black; margin: 5px;\" \/><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Name of the sportsperson<\/strong>: Somdev Devvarman<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Discipline<\/strong>: Tennis<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date of Birth<\/strong>: 13 February1985<\/p>\n<p><strong>State<\/strong>: Guwahati, Assam<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Achievements and Awards<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 French Open 2010, qualified for Singles main draw.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 August 2010, breaks into the top 100 at 96<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In 2010, he won the Gold medal in the Men&#8217;s Single event of XIXth Commonwealth games.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In November 2010, he became the first player since Japan\u2019s Toshiro Sakai to win singles and doubles gold medals at the Asian games.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In 2011, Devvarman received the Arjuna Award from the Indian government for his national tennis successes.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 On 20 September 2011, he was presented the Arjuna Award by Indian Sports Minister Ajay Makken.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In February 2011, he was named Sports Person of the Year with cricketer Sachin Tendulkar in the Sports Illustrated India Annual Awards in Bangalore.<\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Profile<br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Somdev Devvarman began playing tennis at age 9 in Chennai. After competing on the Indian circuit all through his childhood, he hit the headlines as a student at the University of Virginia, USA, for being the only collegiate player to have made three consecutive finals at the NCAA Singles Championships (2006- 08), winning it back to back in his junior and senior years. Only three other players have matched that record since 1950.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He won the gold medal in the Men\u2019s Singles event of the XIXth Commonwealth Games in Delhi, 2010, followed by two more gold medals (singles and doubles) at the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, China, setting a new Indian record. In 2011, Devvarman received the Arjuna Award from the Indian government for his national tennis successes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/somdev_devvarman.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"somdev_devvarman\" title=\"somdev_devvarman\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" style=\"float: left; border: 2px solid black; margin: 5px;\" \/><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Name of the sportsperson<\/strong>: Somdev Devvarman<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Discipline<\/strong>: Tennis<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date of Birth<\/strong>: 13 February1985<\/p>\n<p><strong>State<\/strong>: Guwahati, Assam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[959],"class_list":["post-2813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-tennis-profiles","tag-somdev-devvarman"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Somdev Devvarman - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; 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