Nirupama Sanjeev

Nirupama Sanjeev

Country	India
Residence	New York City, United States
Born	8 December 1976 (1976-12-08) (age 34) Coimbatore, India
Height	5 ft 7 in (1.7 m)
Turned pro	1992
Retired	2010
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Career prize money	US$ 182,057
Official web site	http://www.nirustennis.com/
Singles
Career record	W-L / 180-155
Career titles	0 WTA, 2 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 147 (May 12, 1997)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	2R (1998)
French Open	Q2 (2001)
Wimbledon	Q3 (2001)
US Open	Q3 (1999)
Doubles
Career titles	0 WTA, 10 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 115 (July 23, 2001)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open	1R (1998, 2001)
French Open	1R (2001)
Wimbledon	2R (2001)
US Open	Q1 (1997, 2001)
Other Doubles tournaments
Olympic Games	1R (2000)
Last updated on: 11 October 2011.

Medal record
Competitor for  India
Tennis
Asian Games
Bronze	1998 Bangkok	Mixed Doubles

Nirupama Sanjeev (born 8 December 1976 in Coimbatore) is a former Indian female professional tennis player. She was known as Nirupama Vaidyanathan before marriage.

Nirupama was born in the Southern Indian town of Coimbatore and started playing tennis at the age of 5. She was influenced very much by her cousins, K.G.Suresh and K.G. Ramesh, and her brother Ganesh, all of whom played tennis at the national level. Her father K.S. Vaidyanathan  was a cricketer who had played for Tamil Nadu in Ranji Cricket tournament coached her at the start of her career. Her first tennis tournament foray was the National Under 12 tournament, where she reached the semi-final and went on to win her 1st National title in Under 14 age group at the age of 13. One year later in 1991, she won the National Women’s title at age 14. She won the National Women’s title in 1992-1996. In her younger days she did not have much competition in the Girls draw and she played in the Boys draw and won most of the titles.

In 1996, she moved to Luxembourg where she underwent training to play professional tennis. She turned professional at the age of 18 and started playing mainly in Europe. Nirupama shifted her base to Sarasota, USA in 1997 where she trained with David O Meara who was the former coach of Leander Paes for two years. By then her ranking was in the 160s and in 1998 Australian Open, she became the first Indian woman in the modern era to feature and win a round at a main draw Grand Slam, beating Italy's Gloria Pizzichini. She has also won the Bronze Medal at the 1998 Bangkok Asian Games in Mixed Doubles, partnering Mahesh Bhupathi. For the past five years, Nirupama has been on the expert commentary team along with Indian tennis legend Vijay Amritraj for ESPN-STAR sports, one of Asia’s biggest TV networks for the four Grand Slams. Nirupama also runs a tennis coaching camp in the Bay Area, California. http://www.nirustennis.com/She made a comeback in 2010 when she represented India to play in the Commonwealth Games 2010 and in Asian games in Guangzhou as a 33 year old.

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References

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