Sharmada Balu (born 9 August 1993) is an Indian former tennis player.
Balu has career-high WTA rankings of 582 in singles, achieved on 30 November 2015, and 335 in doubles, reached on 3 August 2015. She won two singles and 16 doubles titles at tournaments of the ITF Women's Circuit.
She won the gold medal for India in the doubles competition in partnership with Prarthana Thombare at the 12th South Asian Games held in Guwahati, India in February 2016.
She decided to quit tennis at the end of 2016 due to an injury and lack of financial support. Five years later, she started playing tennis again. Balu made her WTA Tour main-draw debut at the 2022 Chennai Open in the doubles tournament, partnering with her compatriot Riya Bhatia.
ITF Circuit finals Legend$25,000 tournaments$10/15,000 tournaments
Singles: 2 (2 titles) ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScoreWin 1–0 Apr 2011ITF Lucknow, India10,000 Grass Yvonne Neuwirth 6–3, 2–6, 6–2Win 2–0 May 2015ITF Bhopal, India10,000 Hard Sowjanya Bavisetti 6–2, 6–3
Doubles: 29 (16 titles, 13 runner-ups) ResultW–L DateTournamentTierSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreLoss 0–1 Apr 2012ITF Les Franqueses del Vallès, Spain10,000 Hard He Sirui Carolin Daniels Eugeniya Pashkova 4–6, 3–6Win 1–1 Mar 2013ITF Hyderabad, India10,000 Hard Sowjanya Bavisetti Michaela Frlicka Tereza Malíková 7–5, 5–7, [10–8]Loss 1–2 Mar 2013ITF Hyderabad, India10,000 Hard Sowjanya Bavisetti Natasha Palha Prarthana Thombare 1–6, 4–6Win 2–2 Jul 2013ITF New Delhi, India10,000 Hard Sowjanya Bavisetti Ankita Raina Shweta Rana 6–2, 6–4Win 3–2 Apr 2014ITF Chennai, India10,000 Clay Rishika Sunkara Natasha Palha Prarthana Thombare 6–0, 7–6(4)Win 4–2 May 2014ITF Hyderabad, India10,000 Hard Rishika Sunkara Shweta Rana Prarthana Thombare 6–1, 7–5Loss 4–3 Aug 2014ITF New Delhi, India10,000 Hard Wang Xiyao Rutuja Bhosale Kim Da-bin 3–6, 4–6Win 5–3 Aug 2014ITF Bangalore, India10,000 Hard Prarthana Thombare Hsu Ching-wen Natasha Palha 6–4, 0–6, [10–6]Win 6–3 Oct 2014ITF Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt10,000 Hard Wang Xiyao Harriet Dart Eden Silva 7–5, 2–6, [11–9]Loss 6–4 Feb 2015ITF Port El Kantaoui, Tunisia10,000 Hard Michika Ozeki Deborah Chiesa Beatrice Lombardo 3–6, 2–6 Win 7–4 Apr 2015ITF Heraklion, Greece10,000 Hard Lee Pei-chi Tamara Čurović Aryna Sabalenka 4–6, 6–3, [10–2]Loss 7–5 Apr 2015ITF Heraklion, Greece10,000 Hard Fatma Al-Nabhani Anna Bondár Lisa-Maria Moser 3–6, 5–7Loss 7–6 May 2015ITF Bhopal, India10,000 Hard Hsu Ching-wen Snehadevi Reddy Dhruthi Tatachar Venugopal 6–0, 6–7(1), [3–10]Win 8–6 Jun 2015Fergana Challenger, Uzbekistan25,000 Hard Tadeja Majerič Vlada Ekshibarova Natasha Palha 7–5, 6–3Loss 8–7 Sep 2015ITF Hyderabad, India10,000 Clay Prarthana Thombare Fatma Al-Nabhani Prerna Bhambri 5–7, 2–6Win 9–7 Sep 2015ITF Hyderabad, India10,000 Clay Prarthana Thombare Nidhi Chilumula Rishika Sunkara 2–6, 6–3, [12–10]Loss 9–8 Oct 2015ITF Lucknow, India10,000 Grass Nidhi Chilumula Prerna Bhambri Prarthana Thombare 3–6, 6–4, [7–10]Win 10–8 Oct 2015ITF Raipur, India10,000 Hard Prarthana Thombare Prerna Bhambri Rishika Sunkara 6–3, 6–7(4), [10–8]Win 11–8 Jul 2016ITF Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt10,000 Hard Ola Abou Zekry Eleni Kordolaimi Ana Bianca Mihăilă 2–6, 6–3, [10–5]Win 12–8 Aug 2016ITF Sharm El Sheikh10,000 Hard Ana Veselinović Mariam Bolkvadze Ana Bianca Mihăilă 4–6, 7–6(2), [10–8]Win 13–8 Aug 2016ITF Sharm El Sheikh10,000 Hard Dhruthi Tatachar Venugopal Inês Murta Mirabelle Njoze 6–3, 6–3Loss 13–9 Sep 2016ITF Sharm El Sheikh10,000 Hard Dhruthi Tatachar Venugopal Ana Bianca Mihăilă Sandra Samir 4–6, 1–6Win 14–9 Sep 2016ITF Sharm El Sheikh10,000 Hard Dhruthi Tatachar Venugopal Suzy Larkin Linnea Malmqvist 6–1, 6–3Win 15–9 Oct 2016ITF Pune, India10,000 Hard Dhruthi Tatachar Venugopal Riya Bhatia Shweta Rana 6–4, 6–0Win 16–9 Sep 2021ITF Monastir, Tunisia15,000 Hard Sravya Shivani Chilakalapudi Dalayna Hewitt Elena Milovanović 7–5, 6–3Loss 16–10 Dec 2021ITF Solapur, India15,000 Hard Sowjanya Bavisetti Ramya Natarajan Sathwika Sama 3–6, 6–1, [11–13]Loss 16–11 Feb 2022ITF Ahmedabad, India15,000 Clay Sravya Shivani Chilakalapudi Punnin Kovapitukted Anna Ureke 3–6, 1–6Loss 16–12 Nov 2022ITF Nairobi, Kenya 15,000 Clay Sabastiani Leon Smriti Bhasin Angella Okutoyi 3–6, 5–7Loss 16–13 June 2024ITF Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic15,000 Hard Riya Bhatia Raphaëlle Lacasse Ana Carmen Zamburek 3–6, 4–6
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