New Delhi: India has made a quantum leap in the new list of ATP Doubles rankings. With this leap, he has become the number one player not only of India but also of Asia. In this ranking, he has gained three places to move to the 42nd position. All 41 players above them are from Europe, America and some South American countries like Brazil and Argentina. Divij told PTI, 'It feels good to reach this achievement. This is such an achievement that will remain with me all my life. Keeping the Tokyo Olympics in mind, the left-hander paired up with compatriot Rohan Bopanna and made a grand start with a win at the Tata Open Maharashtra.

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This partnership could not last long and many of their results were quite bad. As a ranking in their 40, the team could not get them to enter the big tournament. This led to Divij changing several partners during the season. In 28 tournaments played this year, Divij teamed up with 10 different partners and got good results with Marcelo Demolinar of Brazil, with whom he also reached the final of the BMW Open in Munich.

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He teamed up with Igor Jelene of Slovakia to win the St. Petersburg Open. The Delhi-based player working with Indian Oil said, 'It is true that I have played with different partners but in the last 52 weeks some of my pairings with Artem, Rohan and Marcelo have been good.

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