Vishnu Vardhan

Vishnu Vardhan
Country (sports)	India
Residence	Secunderabad
Born	27 July 1987 (age 36); Secunderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
Height	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Turned pro	2008
Plays	Right-handed (Two-handed backhand)
Coach	C.V. Nagraj
Prize money	$240,674
Official website	http://www.vishnu-vardhan.com/
Singles
Career record	1–4 (20.0% in ATP World Tour and Grand Slam main draw matches, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 262 (10 September 2012)
Doubles
Career record	3–11 (21.4% in ATP World Tour and Grand Slam main draw matches, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 92 (16 July 2018)
Current ranking	No. 430 (31 January 2022)
Grand Slam doubles results
Wimbledon	2R (2018)
Medal record
Representing India
Men's tennis
Asian Games
Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games
South Asian Games
	Last updated on: 6 November 2019.

Last updated March 17, 2024

Vishnu Vardhan (born 27 July 1987), also known as J. Vishnuvardhan,^[2] is an Indian professional tennis player.^[3] He won bronze medal in men's doubles at 2010 Asian games in Guangzhou, China. He paired-up with and Sania Mirza for mixed doubles and won silver medal at the same event.^[4] He was featured as ITF player of April 2011.^[5] He won the national singles title for the fourth time by winning the Men's final of Fenesta Open tennis Championship on October 8, 2016^[6]

Personal life

Vishnuvardhan's father Mr Jagadeesan is a businessman. He started playing at the age of 9 and was greatly inspired by Leander Paes.^[1]^{[ dead link ]} He did his schooling from DAV Safilguda Hyderabad.

Career

Vishnuvardhan was considered a promising prospect for Indian tennis, representing the next generation of the sport in the country and succeeding Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi. He has represented India in the Davis Cup and was part of the team that defeated Uzbekistan and Philippines en route to qualifying for the World Group.

Vishnuvardhan began to show glimpses of his talent right from a young age, performing well on the junior circuit. The year 2003 proved to be his defining year on the junior circuit with Vishnuvardhan winning the Junior Nationals, and earning himself a place in the Indian Junior Davis Cup team. This success on the junior circuit translated itself into glory in Inter-University tournaments as well, with Vishnuvardhan capturing the gold medal in successive tournaments as the team captain.

Vishnuvardhan has won the Grass Court Nationals and achieving a career-high national ranking of two.^[7]

J.Vishnuvardhan won this first futures tournament on 11 July.

In 2012, Vishnu won the Zuari Garden City-ITF against Sriram Balaji 7–6(7), 6–3.^[8]

Vishnu won the Toyota Bangalore Open ITF in June 2012 by defeating Ti-Chen of Chinese Taipei 6–2, 4–6, 6–1.^[9]

Vishnu participated in the 2012 London Olympics in the Men's Doubles category partnering Leander Paes.^[10] Vishnu and partner Leander Paes crashed out of the Olympic doubles after a 7–6 (7/3), 4–6, 6–3 defeat against French Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Michaël Llodra.^[11] Vishnu won the national singles title for the fourth time by winning the Men's final of Fenesta Open tennis Championship on October 8, 2016, by defeating left-hander Siddharth Vishwakarma from Varanasi 6–3, 6–4.^[12] For the year of 2018, Vishnu is focusing on doubles by partnering with Sriram Balaji with a goal of playing at the Wimbledon.^[13]

Challenger and Futures finals

Singles: 24 (10–14)

Legend (singles)
ATP Challenger Tour (0–0)
ITF Futures Tour (10–14)

Titles by surface
Hard (10–14)
Clay (0–0)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0–1	Apr 2009	India F3, New Delhi	Futures	Hard	Yuki Bhambri	6–7^(1–7), 4–6
Win	1–1	Jul 2009	India F6, New Delhi	Futures	Hard	Rohan Gajjar	6–4, 6–2
Loss	1–2	Aug 2009	India F7, New Delhi	Futures	Hard	Kim Young-jun	3–6, 6–7^(3–7)
Loss	1–3	Aug 2009	India F8, New Delhi	Futures	Hard	Yuki Bhambri	4–6, 3–6
Loss	1–4	Apr 2010	India F3, Vijayawada	Futures	Hard	Rupesh Roy	6–1, 4–6, 5–7
Loss	1–5	Aug 2010	Great Britain F12, London	Futures	Hard	Joshua Milton	6–7^(4–7), 6–2, 3–6
Loss	1–6	Jan 2011	Cambodia F1, Phnom Penh	Futures	Hard	Danai Udomchoke	2–6, 3–6
Win	2–6	Apr 2011	India F3, Chandigarh	Futures	Hard	Yuki Bhambri	4–6, 7–5, 6–3
Win	3–6	Apr 2011	India F4, Noida	Futures	Hard	Kim Young-jun	7–5, 3–6, 7–6^(15–13)
Loss	3–7	Apr 2011	India F5, Chennai	Futures	Hard	Patrik Rosenholm	6–5 ret.
Loss	3–8	Nov 2011	India F10, Pune	Futures	Hard	Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan	4–6, 5–7
Win	4–8	Nov 2011	India F11, New Delhi	Futures	Hard	Rohan Gajjar	6–4, 4–6, 6–4
Win	5–8	Apr 2012	Uzbekistan F2, Andijan	Futures	Hard	Ivan Sergeyev	6–3, 7–6^(7–1)
Win	6–8	Jun 2012	India F8, Mysore	Futures	Hard	Sriram Balaji	7–6^(9–7), 6–3
Win	7–8	Jun 2012	India F9, Bangalore	Futures	Hard	Chen Ti	6–2, 4–6, 6–1
Loss	7–9	Feb 2014	India F1, Chandigarh	Futures	Hard	Antal van der Duim	5–7, 3–6
Loss	7–10	May 2015	India F6, Mysore	Futures	Hard	Ramkumar Ramanathan	6–7^(2–7), 6–3, 3–6
Loss	7–11	Jun 2015	India F9, Hyderabad	Futures	Hard (i)	Antoine Escoffier	6–7^(4–7), 2–6
Loss	7–12	Jul 2015	India F10, Hyderabad	Futures	Hard (i)	Antoine Escoffier	2–6, 6–7^(3–7)
Loss	7–13	Sep 2015	India F15, Madurai	Futures	Hard	Sumit Nagal	6–7^(5–7), 6–7^(4–7)
Win	8–13	Apr 2016	India F1, Chandigarh	Futures	Hard	David Agung Susanto	6–3, 3–6, 6–1
Win	9–13	May 2016	India F3, Jassowal	Futures	Hard	Dalwinder Singh	7–6^(7–4), 6–4
Win	10–13	Sep 2016	India F5, Chennai	Futures	Hard	Sriram Balaji	6–4, 6–3
Loss	10–14	Feb 2017	India F2, Jorhat	Futures	Hard	Sriram Balaji	2–6, 6–7^(1–7)

Doubles: 80 (46–34)

Legend (doubles)
ATP Challenger Tour (8–11)
ITF Futures/World Tennis Tour (38–23)

Titles by surface
Hard (39–28)
Clay (5–4)
Grass (2–1)
Carpet (0–1)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	Mar 2008	India F4, Gurgaon	Futures	Hard	Divij Sharan	Lee Hsin-han Wang Yu jr.	6–7^(4–7), 4–6
Win	1–1	Sep 2008	India F6, Chennai	Futures	Clay	Divij Sharan	Ashutosh Singh Sunil-Kumar Sipaeya	6–3, 4–6, [10–7]
Loss	1–2	Sep 2008	India F7, New Delhi	Futures	Hard	Divij Sharan	Ashutosh Singh Sunil-Kumar Sipaeya	2–6, 2–6
Win	2–2	Mar 2009	India F1, Chandigarh	Futures	Hard	Divij Sharan	Mithun Murali Vijay Sundar Prashanth	4–6, 7–5, [10–7]
Win	3–2	May 2009	India F4, New Delhi	Futures	Hard	Divij Sharan	Tushar Liberhan Vishal Punna	6–1, 6–3
Win	4–2	Jul 2009	India F5, New Delhi	Futures	Hard	Divij Sharan	Rohan Gajjar Purav Raja	6–1, 7–5
Win	5–2	Jul 2009	India F6, New Delhi	Futures	Hard	Divij Sharan	Vivek Shokeen Ashutosh Singh	6–3, 6–4
Win	6–2	Aug 2009	India F7, New Delhi	Futures	Hard	Ashutosh Singh	Chris Eaton Sean Thornley	6–3, 6–7^(5–7), [10–8]
Loss	6–3	Aug 2009	India F9, New Delhi	Futures	Hard	Ashutosh Singh	Chris Eaton Rohan Gajjar	6–7^(6–8), 6–7^(3–7)
Loss	6–4	Oct 2009	India F10, Kolkata	Futures	Hard	Divij Sharan	Rohan Gajjar Purav Raja	4–6, 5–7
Win	7–4	Oct 2009	India F11, Pune	Futures	Hard	Divij Sharan	Rohan Gajjar Purav Raja	7–5, 6–3
Loss	7–5	Mar 2010	Kyoto, Japan	Challenger	Carpet (i)	Divij Sharan	Martin Fischer Philipp Oswald	1–6, 2–6
Loss	7–6	Mar 2010	India F1, Kolkata	Futures	Hard	Divij Sharan	Vivek Shokeen Ashutosh Singh	3–6, 2–6
Win	8–6	Apr 2010	India F3, Vijayawada	Futures	Hard	Divij Sharan	Sriram Balaji Vignesh Peranamallur	2–6, 6–3, [10–3]
Win	9–6	Jul 2010	Great Britain F8, Manchester	Futures	Grass	Divij Sharan	Barry King Ashwin Kumar	6–2, 7–5
Loss	9–7	Jul 2010	Great Britain F9, Ilkley	Futures	Grass	Divij Sharan	Andrew Fitzpatrick Josh Goodall	6–3, 5–7, [3–10]
Win	10–7	Jul 2010	Great Britain F11, Chiswick	Futures	Hard	Divij Sharan	James Chaudry George Coupland	6–2, 6–2
Loss	10–8	Aug 2010	Karshi, Uzbekistan	Challenger	Hard	Divij Sharan	Gong Maoxin Li Zhe	3–6, 1–6
Loss	10–9	Oct 2010	Spain F35, Martos	Futures	Hard	Divij Sharan	Agustín Boje-Ordóñez Pablo Martín-Adalia	6–3, 6–7^(2–7), [8–10]
Loss	10–10	Jan 2011	Cambodia F1, Phnom Penh	Futures	Hard	Divij Sharan	Danai Udomchoke Kittiphong Wachiramanowong	4–6, 4–6
Win	11–10	Mar 2011	Australia F2, Berri	Futures	Grass	Divij Sharan	Chris Letcher Brendan Moore	4–6, 6–3, [10–8]
Win	12–10	Mar 2011	India F2, Kolkata	Futures	Clay	Divij Sharan	Sriram Balaji Ashutosh Singh	7–6^(7–1), 7–6^(7–5)
Win	13–10	Apr 2011	India F3, Chandigarh	Futures	Hard	Divij Sharan	Lee Hsin-han Bumpei Sato	6–4, 4–6, [10–7]
Win	14–10	Aug 2011	Astana, Kazakhstan	Challenger	Hard (i)	Karan Rastogi	Harri Heliövaara Denys Molchanov	7–6^(7–3), 2–6, [10–8]
Loss	14–11	Oct 2011	Nigeria F3, Lagos	Futures	Hard	Karan Rastogi	Yuki Bhambri Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan	2–6, 5–7
Loss	14–12	Nov 2011	India F10, Pune	Futures	Hard	Karan Rastogi	Rohan Gajjar Alexander Satschko	6–4, 6–7^(1–7), [8–10]
Win	15–12	Nov 2011	India F11, New Delhi	Futures	Hard	Karan Rastogi	Sriram Balaji Vijayant Malik	6–1, 6–3
Loss	15–13	Feb 2012	Burnie, Australia	Challenger	Hard	Divij Sharan	John Peers John-Patrick Smith	2–6, 4–6
Loss	15–14	Aug 2012	Samarkand, Uzbekistan	Challenger	Clay	Divij Sharan	Oleksandr Nedovyesov Ivan Sergeyev	4–6, 6–7^(1–7)
Win	16–14	Sep 2012	Bangkok, Thailand	Challenger	Hard	Divij Sharan	Lee Hsin-han Peng Hsien-yin	6–3, 6–4
Loss	16–15	May 2013	India F4, Chandigarh	Futures	Hard	Arun-Prakash Rajagopalan	Sriram Balaji Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan	3–6, 4–6
Win	17–15	Aug 2013	Gabon F1, Libreville	Futures	Hard	Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan	Sam Barry Elie Rousset	6–2, 6–7^(6–8), [10–5]
Loss	17–16	Aug 2013	Gabon F2, Libreville	Futures	Hard	Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan	Sam Barry Elie Rousset	0–6, 0–6
Loss	17–17	Feb 2014	Kolkata, India	Challenger	Hard	Divij Sharan	Saketh Myneni Sanam Singh	3–6, 6–3, [4–10]
Win	18–17	Mar 2014	India F3, Chennai	Futures	Clay	Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan	Sriram Balaji Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan	7–6^(7–1), 6–3
Loss	18–18	Apr 2014	Uzbekistan F2, Namangan	Futures	Hard	Piotr Gadomski	Sriram Balaji Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan	3–6, 1–6
Win	19–18	Jun 2014	Thailand F7, Bangkok	Futures	Hard	Christopher Rungkat	Timo Sivapruksa Wishaya Trongcharoenchaikul	6–1, 6–2
Loss	19–19	Nov 2014	India F6, Kolkata	Futures	Clay	Vijay Sundar Prashanth	Sriram Balaji Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan	4–6, 2–6
Win	20–19	Nov 2014	India F7, Raipur	Futures	Hard	Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan	Vinayak Sharma Kaza Vijay Sundar Prashanth	2–6, 6–3, [10–6]
Win	21–19	Mar 2015	India F2, Bhimavaram	Futures	Hard	Sriram Balaji	Ramkumar Ramanathan Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan	6–7^(5–7), 6–3, [10–6]
Win	22–19	Jun 2015	India F9, Hyderabad	Futures	Hard (i)	Sriram Balaji	Bhavesh Gour Sidharth Rawat	6–3, 6–0
Win	23–19	Jun 2015	India F10, Hyderabad	Futures	Hard (i)	Sriram Balaji	Antoine Escoffier Hugo Grenier	6–4, 6–2
Win	24–19	Nov 2015	India F16, Gwalior	Futures	Hard	Sriram Balaji	Hung Jui-chen Ramkumar Ramanathan	6–4, 7–6^(7–5)
Win	25–19	Apr 2016	India F1, Chandigarh	Futures	Hard	Sriram Balaji	Yuichi Ito Sho Katayama	6–1, 6–4
Loss	25–20	Jun 2016	Fergana, Uzbekistan	Challenger	Hard	Toshihide Matsui	Yannick Jankovits Luca Margaroli	4–6, 6–7^(4–7)
Win	26–20	Jul 2016	Zimbabwe F2, Harare	Futures	Hard	Hugo Nys	Nicolaas Scholtz Tucker Vorster	6–4, 6–2
Win	27–20	Jul 2016	Zimbabwe F3, Harare	Futures	Hard	Hugo Nys	Benjamin Lock Courtney John Lock	6–7^(5–7), 6–4, [10–5]
Loss	27–21	Aug 2016	Indonesia F1, Jakarta	Futures	Hard	Sriram Balaji	Huang Liang-chi Wang Aoran	3–6, 6–4, [10–12]
Win	28–21	Sep 2016	India F5, Chennai	Futures	Hard	Sriram Balaji	Kunal Anand Anvit Bendre	6–3, 6–4
Win	29–21	Sep 2016	India F6, Coimbatore	Futures	Hard	Sriram Balaji	Anvit Bendre Vijay Sundar Prashanth	6–3, 6–1
Win	30–21	Feb 2017	India F2, Jorhat	Futures	Hard	Sriram Balaji	Mohit Mayur Jayaprakash Vijay Sundar Prashanth	7–6^(7–5), 4–6, [10–6]
Win	31–21	Mar 2017	India F3, Guwahati	Futures	Hard	Sriram Balaji	Vijay Sundar Prashanth Sanam Singh	6–3, 3–6, [10–6]
Win	32–21	Mar 2017	India F4, Bhilai	Futures	Hard	Sriram Balaji	Alexander Centenari Sami Reinwein	6–2, 6–4
Loss	32–22	Mar 2017	India F5, Bangalore	Futures	Hard	Sriram Balaji	Chandril Sood Lakshit Sood	6–2, 4–6, [6–10]
Win	33–22	Mar 2017	India F6, Trivandrum	Futures	Clay	Sriram Balaji	Hung Jui-chen Wong Hong-kit	6–3, 7–5
Win	34–22	Apr 2017	Uzbekistan F1, Bukhara	Futures	Hard	Sriram Balaji	Sergey Betov Vladyslav Manafov	6–4, 7–5
Loss	34–23	Apr 2017	Uzbekistan F2, Karshi	Futures	Hard	Sriram Balaji	Sanjar Fayziev Timur Khabibulin	6–7^(3–7), 3–6
Loss	34–24	May 2017	Samarkand, Uzbekistan	Challenger	Hard	Prajnesh Gunneswaran	Laurynas Grigelis Zdeněk Kolář	6–7^(2–7), 3–6
Win	35–24	Jun 2017	Uzbekistan F3, Andijan	Futures	Hard	Sriram Balaji	Vladyslav Manafov Denis Matsukevitch	6–3, 6–2
Win	36–24	Jun 2017	Fergana, Uzbekistan	Challenger	Hard	Sriram Balaji	Yuya Kibi Shuichi Sekiguchi	6–3, 6–3
Win	37–24	Jul 2017	Astana, Kazakhstan	Challenger	Hard	Toshihide Matsui	Evgeny Karlovskiy Evgenii Tiurnev	7–6^(7–3), 6–7^(5–7), [10–7]
Win	38–24	Aug 2017	Chengdu, China, P.R.	Challenger	Hard	Sriram Balaji	Hsieh Cheng-peng Peng Hsien-yin	6–3, 6–4
Loss	38–25	Aug 2017	Jinan, China, P.R.	Challenger	Hard	Sriram Balaji	Hsieh Cheng-peng Peng Hsien-yin	6–4, 4–6, [4–10]
Win	39–25	Nov 2017	Shenzhen, China, P.R.	Challenger	Hard	Sriram Balaji	Austin Krajicek Jackson Withrow	7–6^(7–3), 7–6^(7–3)
Win	40–25	Feb 2018	Chennai, India	Challenger	Hard	Sriram Balaji	Cem İlkel Danilo Petrović	7–6^(7–5), 5–7, [10–5]
Win	41–25	May 2018	Samarkand, Uzbekistan	Challenger	Clay	Sriram Balaji	Mikhail Elgin Denis Istomin	w/o
Loss	41–26	Jul 2018	Braunschweig, Germany	Challenger	Clay	Sriram Balaji	Santiago González Wesley Koolhof	3–6, 3–6
Loss	41–27	May 2019	Busan, Korea, Rep.	Challenger	Hard	Toshihide Matsui	Hsieh Cheng-peng Christopher Rungkat	6–7^(7–9), 1–6
Loss	41–28	Aug 2019	Meerbusch, Germany	Challenger	Clay	Sriram Balaji	Andre Begemann Florin Mergea	6–7^(1–7), 7–6^(7–4), [3–10]
Loss	41–29	Nov 2021	M15 Indore, India	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha	Anirudh Chandrasekar Nitin Kumar Sinha	4–6, 4–6
Win	42–29	Nov 2021	M15 New Delhi, India	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Saketh Myneni	Julian Cash Zsombor Velcz	6–3, 3–6, [11–9]
Loss	42–30	Mar 2022	M15 Bengaluru, India	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Mukund Sasikumar	Julian Cash Arjun Kadhe	6–7^(5–7), 6–3, [7–10]
Loss	42–31	Mar 2022	M15 New Delhi, India	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Anirudh Chandrasekar	Yuki Bhambri Saketh Myneni	4–6, 2–6
Loss	42–32	Oct 2022	M15 New Delhi, India	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Nitin Kumar Sinha	Rithvik Choudary Bollipalli Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha	6–7^(4–7), 2–6
Loss	42–33	Nov 2022	M25 Indore, India	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Boris Butulija	Rithvik Choudary Bollipalli Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha	6–7^(4–7), 3–6
Loss	42–34	Nov 2022	M25 Mumbai, India	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Vladyslav Orlov	Rithvik Choudary Bollipalli Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha	2–6, 2–6
Win	43–34	Mar 2023	M25 Mysuru, India	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Mukund Sasikumar	Rithvik Choudary Bollipalli Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha	6–3, 6–4
Win	44–34	Apr 2023	M15 Chennai, India	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Nitin Kumar Sinha	Sai Karteek Reddy Ganta Theertha Shashank Macherla	6–1, 6–7^(2–7), [10–7]
Win	45–34	Oct 2023	M15 Davangere, India	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Siddhant Banthia	Sai Karteek Reddy Ganta Manish Sureshkumar	6–2, 7–5
Win	46–34	Mar 2024	M25 New Delhi, India	World Tennis Tour	Hard	Siddhant Banthia	Parikshit Somani Manish Sureshkumar	6–4, 6–1

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In the doubles of the 2019 Meerbusch Challenger tennis competition, David Pérez Sanz and Mark Vervoort were the defending champions but only Vervoort chose to defend his title, partnering Íñigo Cervantes. Vervoort lost in the first round to Sander Arends and David Pel.

This is a list of the main career statistics of Indian professional tennis player Leander Paes.

References

1 2 "Vishnu Vardhan ATP Profile". ATP World Tour. Retrieved 26 June 2012.
↑ Subrahmanyam, V. V. (6 August 2021). "'ATP not ensuring level-playing field for Asians'". The Hindu.
↑ "Yuki, Vardhan ready for London Olympics". 20 June 2012.
↑ "Men's Circuit – Player Biography". ITF Tennis. Retrieved 2 May 2011.
↑ "ITF Spotlight: Vishnu Vardhan - April 2011". www.itftennis.com. Retrieved 2 February 2018.
↑ Srinivasan, Kamesh (9 October 2016). "Razor-sharp Vishnu does it again". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X . Retrieved 5 November 2016.
↑ V.V. Subrahmanyam. "Rare honour for city tennis player", The Hindu , 26 December 2007. Retrieved on 24 June 2008.
↑ "Vishnu Vardhan". The Hindu. 10 June 2012. Retrieved 10 June 2012.
↑ "Vishnu Vardhan". The Hindu. 17 June 2012. Retrieved 17 June 2012.
↑ "Ghazala Vishnu Vardhan". The Times of India . Retrieved 21 June 2012.
↑ "London Olympics: Leander Paes-Vardhan knocked out of doubles event". The Times of India . Retrieved 2 August 2012.
↑ "Razor-sharp Vishnu does it again". The Hindu. 9 October 2016.
↑ "Interview with IndianTennisDaily". 25 February 2018. Retrieved 18 March 2018.

External links

Vishnu Vardhan at the Association of Tennis Professionals
Vishnu Vardhan at the International Tennis Federation
Vishnu Vardhan at the Davis Cup

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[atp-vishnu-vardhan-1] 1 2 "Vishnu Vardhan ATP Profile". ATP World Tour. Retrieved 26 June 2012.

[2] Subrahmanyam, V. V. (6 August 2021). "'ATP not ensuring level-playing field for Asians'". The Hindu.

[3] "Yuki, Vardhan ready for London Olympics". 20 June 2012.

[4] "Men's Circuit – Player Biography". ITF Tennis. Retrieved 2 May 2011.

[5] "ITF Spotlight: Vishnu Vardhan - April 2011". www.itftennis.com. Retrieved 2 February 2018.

[6] Srinivasan, Kamesh (9 October 2016). "Razor-sharp Vishnu does it again". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X . Retrieved 5 November 2016.

[7] V.V. Subrahmanyam. "Rare honour for city tennis player", The Hindu , 26 December 2007. Retrieved on 24 June 2008.

[8] "Vishnu Vardhan". The Hindu. 10 June 2012. Retrieved 10 June 2012.

[9] "Vishnu Vardhan". The Hindu. 17 June 2012. Retrieved 17 June 2012.

[10] "Ghazala Vishnu Vardhan". The Times of India . Retrieved 21 June 2012.

[11] "London Olympics: Leander Paes-Vardhan knocked out of doubles event". The Times of India . Retrieved 2 August 2012.

[12] "Razor-sharp Vishnu does it again". The Hindu. 9 October 2016.

[13] "Interview with IndianTennisDaily". 25 February 2018. Retrieved 18 March 2018.

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