The 15-year-old young tennis sensation from India, Maaya Rajeshwaran Revathi, is currently making waves in world tennis by reaching the semifinals of the 2025 WTA 125 L&T Mumbai Open after defeating seasoned tennis players including Iryna Shymanovich and Mei Yamaguchi.
Born on 12 June 2009 in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India, Rajeshwaran Revathi started playing tennis at the age of eight and currently boasts a career-high singles ranking of 643. Well, keeping in mind her aggressive and dominant exploits at the 2025 WTA 125 L&T Mumbai Open, the young tennis prodigy Rajeshwaran Revathi is being hailed as India’s biggest tennis hope.
In this article we will take a look at Rajeshwaran Revathi’s early days and talk about her path-breaking tennis achievements that have made her capture enormous attention from all over the world.
How Maaya Rajeshwaran Revathi is Redefining Tennis Outside India’s Constraints
Who is Maaya Rajeshwaran Revathi?
Born on 12 June 2009 in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India, Rajeshwaran Revathi started playing tennis at the young age of eight and decided to pursue professional tennis at the age of ten. At the age of thirteen years, Revathi started ITFs, clinching a couple of them and establishing herself as one of the top 60 junior players. In one of her recent interviews, Rajeshwaran Revathi revealed that her parents, Revathi and Rajeshwaran, have been entirely supportive of her tennis aspirations since a very young age.
Maaya Rajeshwaran Revathi’s WTA 125 L&T Mumbai Open Exploits
Often hailed as one of the most prestigious tennis tournaments in India, the 2025 edition of the WTA 125 L&T Mumbai Open witnessed the fifteen-year-old, Maaya Rajeshwaran Revathi making a wildcard entry. Although the 2025 WTA 125 L&T Mumbai Open was her debut stint at high-level senior professional tennis against seasoned WTA players like Iryna Shymanovich and Mei Yamaguchi, she defied the odds and gave a tough battle to the seasoned players throughout the tournament.
Despite being relatively unknown on the senior circuit, Revathi pulled off a shocking upset by defeating Iryna Shymanovich. While her victory left tennis aficionados from all over the world stunned, her winning streak at the 2025 WTA 125 L&T Mumbai Open continued. Maya Rajeshwaran Revathi became the talk of the town after she defeated Japan’s Mei Yamaguchi in the quarterfinals with a dominant scoreline of 6-4, 3-6, 6-2.
At the semifinals of the 2025 WTA 125 L&T Mumbai Open, Maya Rajeshwaran Revathi created history and graciously earned the stature of being the very first player born in 2009 to advance to the semi-finals of a WTA 125 event. Although Maya’s winning streak ended in the semi-finals of the 2025 WTA 125 L&T Mumbai Open as she lost against 5th seed Jill Teichmann, she undoubtedly rose to fame for her successful and dominant exploits on the court.
Is Maaya Rajeshwaran Revathi Indian Tennis’ Next Big Hope?
The unranked junior, 15-year-old Maaya Rajeshwaran Revathi, who shocked the entire world with her explosive performance at the 2025 WTA 125 L&T Mumbai Open, is now being looked upon as India’s next big hope in the world of tennis.
According to the reports, Maaya Rajeshwaran Revath will also be ranked inside the top 700 after her historic exploits at the 2025 WTA 125 L&T Mumbai Open, making her the youngest Indian to earn a WTA ranking. Being trained at the Rafael Nadal Tennis Academy in Mallorca for a week in 2024, Maaya has undoubtedly drawn heavily from the playing style of Nadal. Well, following in the footsteps of Sania Mirza, Maaya is all geared up to represent and elevate Indian tennis on a global scale outside the Indian constraints.
