Yuki Bhambri

2009: First ITF title and Davis cup debut

Yuki obtained a wild card spot in the doubles main draw pairing with Harsh Mankad at the Chennai Open. At same event he received a wild card spot in the singles qualifying draw in the Chennai Open where lost to compatriot Sanam Singh in three sets. Yuki also obtained a wild card position for the 2010 Australian Open qualifying draw as an additional reward for his win at the 2009 Junior Australian Open. After his win in the Orange Bowl, Yuki received a spot in the main draw of the Sony Ericsson Open where he lost to Diego Junqueira in the first round. Following his showing at the Sony Ericsson, Yuki played in an ITF Futures Event in New Delhi, India, where he won the tournament becoming the youngest Indian to win a Futures event; Yuki continued this winning streak by capturing the title of the following Futures event held in the same venue. Yuki made his Davis Cup debut against South Africa in the World Group Play Offs.

2010: Youth Olympics Games Silver medal

In August, Bhambri advanced to the finals of the first Youth Olympics Games in Singapore by defeating Damir Džumhur in three sets. He played Colombian Juan Sebastian Gomez in the finals. After suffering cramps in his thigh, he conceded the match with the score at 1–4 in the third set. This gave him a silver medal at the first Youth Olympics in Singapore.

2012: First Challenger Title

In May, Yuki won his first ATP men's doubles challenger title with compatriot Divij Sharan at Busan Challenger. They defeated Taiwanese duo of Hsieh Cheng-peng and Lee Hsin-han in the finals.^[9]

A week later, he defeated Amir Weintraub in straight sets to win his first ATP Challenger singles title of his career in Fergana, Uzbekistan on 20 May 2012.^[10]

2013

He entered his first ATP Challenger final of the season at Kaohsiung, Taiwan. He lost to Chinese Taipei's Lu Yen-hsun in the final.^[11]

He won his first ATP Challenger singles title of the season and second of his career at Traralgon, Australia. He defeated American Bradley Klahn in the final. This was his second ATP Challenger singles title of his career.^[12]

2014

Bhambri entered the 2014 Australian Open in both singles and doubles. He lost to Potito Starace in first round of the singles qualifying draw. He entered the men's doubles with Michael Venus from New Zealand as his partner. They defeated Roberto Bautista Agut and Daniel Gimeno-Traver in the first round. In the second round, the pair shocked tenth-seeded Jean-Julien Rojer and Horia Tecau by defeating them in straight sets.^[13] They finally lost to 5th seeded Indo-Czech pair of Leander Paes and Radek Stepanek in round 3.^[14]

On 8 Feb 2014, Bhambri won his third ATP Challenger singles title with a win at Sriram Capital PL Reddy Memorial ATP Challenger tennis tournament in Chennai. He defeated Alexander Kudryavtsev of Russia in three sets in the final. He also won the doubles title at same event with his partner Michael Venus of New Zealand. The pair defeated Indo-Slovakian combination of Sriram Balaji and Blaz Rola in the doubles final.^[15]

Later in the year, Bhambri won two medals for India at the 2014 Asian Games. He won bronze in the men's singles category. He lost to Japan's Yoshihito Nishioka in the semifinals.^[16] He also won bronze in men's double category with Divij Sharan as his partner. The pair lost in the semifinals to Korean pair of Lim Yong-kyu and Chung Hyeon.^[17]

2015: Top 100

Starting the year as 315th ranked player in the ATP rankings, Bhambri qualified for the 2015 Australian Open, but lost to Great Britain's Andy Murray in the first round in straight sets.^[18]

He then entered 2015 Delhi Open as a Wildcard and reached the finals, losing to Somdev Devvarman in three sets 3–6, 6–4, 6–0. He maintained his good start of the season and reached the semifinals of Kazan Kremlin Cup. On 13 September, he defeated Wu Di in the finals of Shanghai Challenger in three sets 3–6, 6–0, 7–6^(7–3) to win his first title of the season, which helped him reach no. 125 in the ATP Rankings. He reached the finals at the OEC Kaohsiung, losing to Hyeon Chung in straight sets 7–5, 6–4.

He broke into the top 100 for the first time in his career on 19 October 2015. He won his first title in India on 31 October defeating Evgeny Donskoy in straight sets 6–2, 7–6^(7–4) in Pune. As a result of his good run, he rose to career best ranking of 88 on 9 November. He finished year with year end ranking of 93.

2016: Struggle with injury

Bhambri entered main draw of Australian Open for second consecutive year. He lost in the first round to the sixth seed Tomas Berdych in straight sets.^[19]

In February he won his sixth doubles challenger title at 2016 Delhi Open partnering with Mahesh Bhupathi.

Bhambri was out of the action from March to September because of tennis elbow injury.^[20] This forced his rankings to drop out of 500.

2017

Bhambri in Action during 2017 Citi Open

Bhambri started his 2017 campaign with the Chennai Open. He won all of his qualifying matches and entered main draw, where he defeated compatriot Ramkumar Ramanathan in the first round, before losing in round 2 to Benoit Paire.^[21] He then entered the qualifying draw of the Australian Open where he lost in final qualifying round to Ernesto Escobedo.^[22]

In July, Bhambri reached the quarterfinals at the Citi Open in Washington, D.C.. This was his second quarterfinal on the ATP World Tour, and his first at a 500 level event. Bhambri defeated Stefan Kozlov in the first round and shocked 6th seed and defending champion Gaël Monfils in the second round. He then defeated Guido Pella to reach the quarterfinals where he lost to eventual finalist Kevin Anderson.^[23]

In October, Bhambri teamed up with Divij Sharan to enter the Tashkent Challenger. They finished as runners-up, losing to the pair of Hans Podlipnik-Castillo and Andrei Vasilevski in the final.^[24] In November, he won his second Pune challenger title defeating compatriot Ramkumar Ramanathan in the final. This was his sixth Challenger singles title.^[25]

2018: Return to top 100

Yuki started the year with the Tata Open Maharashtra in Pune where he entered the main draw. He defeated compatriot Arjun Kadhe in the opening round but lost to Frenchman Pierre-Hugues Herbert in the second round.^[26] He then entered the qualifying draw of the Australian Open and qualified for the main draw for the third time. He could not proceed further and lost to Marcos Baghdatis in straight sets 7–6^(7–4), 6–4, 6–3 in the first round.^[27] In February, Yuki entered the inaugural Chennai Challenger. He reached the final but lost to top seed Jordan Thompson in 3 sets.^[28]

In March, he entered the Indian Wells Masters and qualified for the main draw. He defeated Nicolas Mahut in the opening round. In the second round he created big upset by defeating then world no 12 Lucas Pouille in straight sets. He eventually lost to Sam Querrey in the third round.^[29] Bhambri carried his good form to the next masters at the Miami Open where he qualified for main draw. There he defeated Mirza Basic in the first round before bowing out in the second round with a loss to Jack Sock.^[30]

In April, Bhambri won the first challenger title of the season at the Santaizi Challenger by defeating compatriot Ramkumar Ramanathan. With this win he returned to the top 100 rankings.^[31]

On the back of his improved rankings, Yuki earned direct entry into the 2018 French Open. This was his first match in the main draw at the event. He lost in the first round to Ruben Bemelmans in straight sets.^[32] He also entered the doubles draw with compatriot Divij Sharan. The pair advanced to the second round where they lost to second seeds and eventual finalists Oliver Marach and Mate Pavić.^[33]

Yuki also got direct entry into the 2018 Wimbledon Championships for the first time. He lost in the opening round to Italian qualifier Thomas Fabbiano.^[34] He lost in straight sets in the 1st round in the 2018 US Open to Pierre-Hugues Herbert.

Singles: 12 (7–5)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score in Final
Win	1–0	May 2012	Fergana, Uzbekistan	Hard	Amir Weintraub	6–3, 6–3
Loss	1–1	September 2013	Kaohsiung, Taiwan	Hard	Lu Yen-hsun	4–6, 3–6
Win	2–1	October 2013	Traralgon, Australia	Hard	Bradley Klahn	6–7(13–15), 6–3, 6–4
Win	3–1	February 2014	Chennai, India	Hard	Alexander Kudryavtsev	4–6, 6–3, 7–5
Loss	3–2	February 2015	New Delhi, India	Hard	Somdev Devvarman	6–3, 4–6, 0–6
Loss	3–3	May 2015	Samarkand, Uzbekistan	Clay	Teymuraz Gabashvili	3–6, 1–6
Win	4–3	September 2015	Shanghai, China	Hard	Wu Di	3–6, 6–0, 7–6(7–3)
Loss	4–4	September 2015	Kaohsiung, Taiwan	Hard	Chung Hyeon	5–7, 4–6
Win	5–4	October 2015	Pune, India	Hard	Evgeny Donskoy	6–2, 7–6(7–4)
Win	6–4	November 2017	Pune, India	Hard	Ramkumar Ramanathan	4–6, 6–3, 6–4
Loss	6–5	February 2018	Chennai, India	Hard	Jordan Thompson	5–7, 6–3, 5–7
Win	7–5	April 2018	Taipei, Taiwan	Carpet(i)	Ramkumar Ramanathan	6–3, 6–4

Doubles: 15 (6–9)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score in the final
Loss	0–1	September 2010	Bangkok, Thailand	Hard	Ryler DeHeart	Gong Maoxin Li Zhe	3–6, 4–6
Win	1–1	May 2012	Busan, South Korea	Hard	Divij Sharan	Hsieh Cheng-peng Lee Hsin-han	1–6, 6–1, [10–5]
Loss	1–2	July 2012	Penza, Russia	Hard	Divij Sharan	Konstantin Kravchuk Nikolaus Moser	7–6(7–5), 3–6, [7–10]
Loss	1–3	August 2012	Beijing, China	Hard	Divij Sharan	Sanchai Ratiwatana Sonchat Ratiwatana	6–7(3–7), 6–2, [6–10]
Loss	1–4	September 2012	Shanghai, China	Hard	Divij Sharan	Sanchai Ratiwatana Sonchat Ratiwatana	4–6, 4–6
Win	2–4	July 2013	Winnetka, USA	Hard	Michael Venus	Somdev Devvarman Jack Sock	2–6, 6–2, [10–8]
Loss	2–5	September 2013	Kaohsiung, Taiwan	Hard	Wang Chieh-fu	Juan Sebastián Cabal Robert Farah	4–6, 2–6
Win	3–5	February 2014	Chennai, India	Hard	Michael Venus	Sriram Balaji Blaž Rola	7–6(7–5), 6–4
Win	4–5	September 2014	Shanghai, China	Hard	Divij Sharan	Somdev Devvarman Sanam Singh	7–6(7–2), 6–7(4–7), [10–8]
Loss	4–6	October 2014	Indore, India	Hard	Divij Sharan	Adrián Menéndez Maceiras Aleksandr Nedovyesov	6–2, 4–6, [3–10]
Win	5–6	May 2015	Karshi, Uzbekistan	Hard	Adrián Menéndez Maceiras	Sergey Betov Mikhail Elgin	5–7, 6–3, [10–8]
Loss	5–7	August 2015	Aptos, United States	Hard	Matthew Ebden	Chris Guccione Artem Sitak	4–6, 6–7(2–7)
Loss	5–8	August 2015	Vancouver, Canada	Hard	Michael Venus	Treat Conrad Huey Frederik Nielsen	6–7(4–7), 7–6(7–3), [5–10]
Win	6–8	February 2016	New Delhi, India	Hard	Mahesh Bhupathi	Saketh Myneni Sanam Singh	6–3, 4–6, [10–5]
Loss	6–9	October 2017	Tashkent, Uzbekistan	Hard	Divij Sharan	Hans Podlipnik-Castillo Andrei Vasilevski	4–6, 2–6