[3][4][5] In March 2017, the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Government of India, appointed him as the national observer for tennis.

[7] Somdev was born into a Tripuri Hindu family in Guwahati, Assam to Ranjana and Pravanjan Dev Varman, a retired income tax commissioner.

Somdev, while at college, won the 2007 NCAA Singles Championship by defeating Georgia Bulldog's senior, the top seed John Isner in the final.

Devvarman becomes the 13th player in the 124-year history of the tournament to win consecutive titles, and just the fourth to do so in the past 50 years with an unprecedented 44–1 record in 2008.

After graduating from the University of Virginia, Devvarman signed with Mamba International,[11] a sports management company based in Charlottesville, and started his professional career at the Futures tournament in Rochester, New York, where he won the singles title.

In a clay-court non-tour event which included several players ranked in the top 150, Devvarman defeated Ricardo Mello, Robert Kendrick, and Justin Gimelstob, before losing a three-set match to No.

On 27 July 2008, Devvarman won the Lexington Challenger, first coming through qualifying, and then beating players including Bobby Reynolds, Xavier Malisse, and Robert Kendrick to take the title.

Rainer Schüttler of Germany pulled out due to injury in the semifinals, meaning that Devvarman progressed to the final.

He defeated João Souza of Brazil in the first round and ousted Brit Alex Bogdanovic before losing to third seed and world No.

At the third Grand Slam of the year, Wimbledon, Somdev, seeded 14th in qualifying, failed to advance to the singles draw, losing in the first round to Jean-Rene Lisnard of Monaco.

In doubles, Devvarman and partner Kevin Anderson advanced to the main draw, but lost to the fourth-seeded pair Mahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles.

Devvarman had poor clay- and grass-court seasons, but was more successful upon return to hard courts, reaching the semifinals of the Comerica Bank Challenger.

He then caused a major upset in the Legg Mason Tennis Classic, avenging his defeat in the Chennai Open against Marin Čilić.

After beating Poland's Jerzy Janowicz, Devvarman became the first Indian in the main draw of a Grand Slam singles tournament since Prakash Amritraj in 2002.

He also reached the second round of the ATP World Tour 500 series Dubai Tennis Championships, where he lost against Marcos Baghdatis.

Somdev competed at Wimbledon in the doubles draw with former UVA teammate, Treat Huey, where they lost to Rohan Bopanna and Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi.

On 10 October 2010, Somdev won the men's tennis gold medal in the Commonwealth Games 2010 at Delhi by beating Greg Jones of Australia in straight sets.

On 23 November 2010, Somdev also won the singles gold medal in the 2010 Asian Games at Guangzhou, China by beating Denis Istomin of Uzbekistan in straight sets.

Somdev was top seed in the Singapore challenger tournament, where he lost to Andrej Martin of Slovakia in the quarterfinals.

After his good performance at Indian Wells, Somdev played the Sony Ericsson Miami Masters ATP 1000 tournament.

47 Potito Starace in the first round in straight sets, and then stunned big-serving sensation Milos Raonic (world No.

[18] He returned to action in accepting a wildcard entry to participate in men's singles event at the 2012 London Olympics.

His only wins in the season came in the Charlottesville Challenger, where he reached the quarterfinals after receiving a wildcard entry into the main draw.

Somdev entered the PBZ Zagreb Indoors tournament, where he won against qualifier Michael Berrer in the first round.

He then played lucky loser Édouard Roger-Vasselin of France in the second round, where he registered a come-from-behind victory in three sets.

He entered the main draw of the Savannah Challenger, where he won his round-of-32 match against Nikoloz Basilashvili as his opponent retired after the first.

He then entered qualifying at the 2013 BB&T Atlanta Open – Singles, where he lost in the second round to fellow countryman Prakash Amritraj.

Somdev played Janko Tipsarević in the second rubber and won in straight sets 7–5, 7–5, 7–6(3) This was a major upset and gave India a realistic chance of reaching the round 2.

Due to the absence of Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi, Somdev teamed up with Rohan Bopanna for the Doubles rubber on Saturday.

He didn't play the reverse singles due to a shoulder problem which eventually would make him miss most of the tennis in 2012.