Archana Venkataraman

Archana Venkataraman
Country (sports)	India
Born	30 August 1988 (age 36)
Retired	2012
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	$28,113
Singles
Career record	90–102
Career titles	3 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 549 (18 December 2000)
Doubles
Career record	63–90
Career titles	6 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 510 (13 November 2006)

Archana Venkataraman (born 30 August 1988) is an Indian former professional tennis player.^[1]

Venkataraman has career-high WTA rankings of 549 in singles, achieved on 18 December 2000, and 510 in doubles, set on 13 November 2006. In her career, she won three singles and six doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit.

In 2006, her only WTA Tour main-draw appearance came at the Kolkata where she partnered with fellow Indian Ragini Vimal in the doubles event. But they lost in the first round to South African Liezel Huber and İndian Sania Mirza.^[2]^[3]

ITF Circuit finals

$100,000 tournaments
$75,000 tournaments
$50,000 tournaments
$25,000 tournaments
$10,000 tournaments

Singles: 7 (3–4)

Result	No.	Date	Location	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	1.	10 May 1999	Mumbai, India	Hard	Sai Jayalakshmy Jayaram	1–6, 5–7
Runner-up	2.	8 May 2000	Indore, India	Hard	Sonal Phadke	7–5, 4–6, 6–7⁽⁵⁾
Win	3.	15 May 2000	Indore, India	Hard	Sonal Phadke	6–4, 6–4
Runner-up	4.	22 May 2000	Indore, India	Hard	Meghha Vakaria	4–6, 5–7
Win	5.	12 February 2001	New Delhi, India	Hard	Sonal Phadke	4–6, 6–2, 7–5
Runner-up	6.	29 April 2001	Pune, India	Hard	Radhika Tulpule	6–4, 3–6, 6–7⁽⁷⁾
Winner	7.	16 June 2001	New Delhi, India	Clay	Sheethal Goutham	6–4, 6–1

Doubles: 20 (6–14)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runner-up	1.	19 October 1998	Ahmedabad, India	Hard	Arthi Venkataraman	Rushmi Chakravarthi Sai Jayalakshmy Jayaram	2–6, 4–6
Runner-up	2.	24 April 1999	Mumbai, India	Hard	Arthi Venkataraman	Rushmi Chakravarthi Sai Jayalakshmy Jayaram	5–7, 6–3, 6–7
Winner	3.	8 May 2000	Indore, India	Hard	Arthi Venkataraman	Sheethal Goutham Liza Pereira Viplav	6–4, 6–4
Winner	4.	15 May 2000	Indore, India	Hard	Arthi Venkataraman	Karishma Patel Shalini Thakar	1–6, 6–3, 6–0
Winner	5.	22 May 2000	Indore, India	Hard	Arthi Venkataraman	Isha Lakhani Meghha Vakaria	6–3, 1–6, 6–2
Runner-up	6.	11 March 2001	New Delhi, India	Hard	Arthi Venkataraman	Rushmi Chakravarthi Sai Jayalakshmy Jayaram	1–6, 2–6
Runner-up	7.	18 March 2001	New Delhi, India	Hard	Arthi Venkataraman	Sheethal Goutham Liza Pereira Viplav	6–7⁽³⁾, 2–6
Runner-up	8.	1 April 2002	New Delhi, India	Hard	Samrita Sekar	Sai Jayalakshmy Jayaram Radhika Tulpule	7–6⁽⁸⁾, 4–6, 1–6
Runner-up	9.	8 April 2002	New Delhi, India	Hard	Samrita Sekar	Sai Jayalakshmy Jayaram Radhika Tulpule	5–7, 0–6
Runner-up	10.	15 April 2002	New Delhi, India	Hard	Samrita Sekar	Sai Jayalakshmy Jayaram Radhika Tulpule	2–6, 2–6
Runner-up	11.	22 April 2002	New Delhi, India	Clay	Samrita Sekar	Sai Jayalakshmy Jayaram Radhika Tulpule	7–5, 1–6, 4–6
Runner-up	12.	21 June 2002	Mumbai, India	Carpet	Arthi Venkataraman	Sheethal Goutham Shruti Dhawan	5–7, 0–6
Runner-up	13.	11 May 2003	New Delhi, India	Carpet	Liza Pereira Viplav	Sheethal Goutham Shruti Dhawan	6–2, 6–7⁽⁴⁾, 0–6
Runner-up	14.	9 November 2003	Pune, India	Hard	Geeta Manohar	Montinee Tangphong Thassha Vitayaviroj	6–4, 5–7, 4–6
Runner-up	15.	23 May 2004	Lucknow, India	Grass	Sai Jayalakshmy Jayaram	Ankita Bhambri Rushmi Chakravarthi	4–6, 1–6
Winner	16.	7 November 2005	Pune, India	Clay	Geeta Manohar	Parul Goswami Sandhya Nagaraj	6–2, 7–6⁽⁵⁾
Runner-up	17.	8 May 2006	New Delhi, India	Hard	Rushmi Chakravarthi	Zhao Yijing Song Shanshan	3–6, 4–6
Winner	18.	15 May 2006	New Delhi, India	Hard	Rushmi Chakravarthi	Zhao Yijing Song Shanshan	6–7⁽⁵⁾, 6–2, 6–4
Winner	19.	16 June 2006	New Delhi, India	Hard	Sanaa Bhambri	Lu Jingjing Lee Wei-ping	6–3, 7–6⁽⁴⁾
Runner-up	20.	28 April 2008	Cochin, India	Clay	Geeta Manohar	Rushmi Chakravarthi Poojashree Venkatesha	1–6, 5–7