Sunil-Kumar Sipaeya

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Sunil-Kumar Sipaeya
Country (sports)File:Flag of India.svg India
Born (1983-04-04) 4 April 1983 (age 43)
Kapurthala, India
Retired2013
PlaysLeft-handed
Prize money$62,462
Singles
Career record{{#property:P564}}
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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