Sunil-Kumar Sipaeya

Sunil-Kumar Sipaeya
Country (sports) India
Born (1983-04-04) 4 April 1983 (age 41)
Kapurthala, India
PlaysLeft-handed
Prize money$62,462
Singles
Highest rankingNo. 340 (13 January 2005)
Doubles
Career record1–0 (Davis Cup)
Highest rankingNo. 296 (23 May 2005)

Sunil-Kumar Sipaeya (born 4 April 1983) is an Indian former professional tennis player.[1]

A left-handed player from Kapurthala, Sipaeya was a national hardcourt champion as a 16-year old in 1999 and made the junior doubles quarter-finals of the 2001 Wimbledon Championships.[2]

Sipaeya represented India at the 2002 Asian Games and was a doubles silver-medalist at the 2003 Afro-Asian Games.[citation needed]

His career best singles ranking of 340 was attained in 2005 and he won two ITF Futures singles titles during his career. As a doubles player he was ranked as high as 296 in the world and won a further 15 ITF tournaments.[3]

In 2007 he made his only Davis Cup appearance for India, as the doubles partner of Leander Paes in a tie against Uzbekistan. He and Paes were victorious in five sets, over Farrukh Dustov and Denis Istomin.[citation needed]

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References

  1. ^ "Sunil Sipaeya... steady and sure". Rediff. 5 November 2001.
  2. ^ Brijnath, Rohit (25 October 1999). "Sunil Kumar, a clerk's son from Kapurthala, becomes national tennis champion at 16". India Today.
  3. ^ Desai, Shail (3 February 2011). "Victory adds colour to Sipaeya's tennis". The Times of India.