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about Andy Ram

Andy Ram was born on April 10^th, 1980 in Montevideo, Uruguay.  He has an older brother and younger sister.  When he was just eight years old his family relocated to Israel.  Andy is married to his high school sweetheart, Shiri, who has just finished her university studies in Israel.  The two were married in the Fall of 2006 with hundreds of people in attendance to celebrate the occasion.   The newlyweds live in Tel Aviv.

Andy Ram has been successfully competing on the tennis court since the early 90’s when he was one of the top junior players in the world for his age.  In 1994 he reached the semifinals of the prestigious Les Petits As Championship, an annual event for the best 14 and unders in the world.  The other semifinalists that year were Marat Safin, Juan Carlos Ferrero and Fernando Gonzalez.  In 1998 Andy finished his junior career in the top 10 of the ITF rankings and immediately began competing on the professional circuit. 

Andy made it to the top 200, topping out at 187 in August of 2001.  But a variety of injuries halted his progress and by 2002 he was looking for a steady doubles partner as he realized his chances of becoming a top singles player were diminishing.  He won the RCA Championships doubles with Mario Ancic in 2002, but it was not until the spring of 2003 when he asked Jonathan Erlich, who was preparing for life after the tour,  to play one last event…The qualifying of Wimbledon.   They qualified and made the semifinals and four years later Erlich and Ram are household names on the Tour, a top 10 doubles team and two of the most popular players among their peers and fans throughout the world.

At twenty-seven years old Andy Ram is considered one of the top doubles players on Tour.  In Men’s Doubles he and Jonathan Erlich have been a consistent top 10 team since 2005 and have won 9 doubles titles together.  In addition, he has now won two Grand Slam Mixed Doubles Championships with different players…Vera Zvonareva at the 2006 Wimbledon and Natalie Dechy at the 2007 French Open.  This gives him the distinction of being the only Israeli to have won a Grand Slam event.