London: Indian challenge ended in the men's doubles event of the Wimbledon Championships as Leander Paes and Radek Stepanek and the pair of Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna suffered contrasting defeats in their respective matches on Tuesday. While fourth seeds Leander Paes and Radek Stepanek were stunned by Ivan Dodig and Marcelo Melo in a grueling weather-hit five-setter, Bhupathi and Bopanna lost in straight sets to Mikhael Elgin and Denis...
10:55 PM, Jul 03, 2012
New Delhi: Olympic bronze-medallist wrestler Sushil Kumar has emerged as the front-runner to be India's flag bearer at the London Olympics opening ceremony. Besides Sushil, the Indian Olympic Association had shortlisted Beijing Olympics gold-medallist shooter Abhinav Bindra, bronze-medallists boxer Vijender Singh and tennis veteran Leander Paes for the flag bearer's role in London. But since Vijender might have a bout to fight the morning after the opening ceremony on July...
03:16 PM, Jul 02, 2012
New Delhi: Leander Paes may have kept everyone guessing whether he would participate in London Olympics but Vishnu Vardhan, his doubles partner for the mega event, said he was always sure that "things would fall in place". Paes, who was frowning over being paired by AITA with a low-ranked player like Vardhan, on Thursday night confirmed that he would compete in next month's London Games. "I was never worried. People...
04:57 PM, Jun 29, 2012
London: Leander Paes and Radek Stepanek brushed aside the challenge of Colin Ebelthite and John Peers in straight sets to progress to the second round of the men's doubles event of the Wimbledon championships here on Thursday. The fourth seed Indo-Czech pair scored an easy 6-2, 6-4, 6-2 win over the unseeded Australian combination in just one hour 31 minutes at court number seven. Paes and Stepanek converted three of...
11:22 PM, Jun 28, 2012
New Delhi: Jumping straight into the world's biggest sporting event after an eight-month long forced sabbatical is not how an athlete would have planned his comeback, but Somdev Devvarman says he is ready for the tough battle ahead in the London Olympics. Somdev has been out of action due to a shoulder surgery since the start of the season and started practicing only recently. Ideally, he could have played some...
04:45 PM, Jun 28, 2012
Sania Mirza has slammed the All India Tennis Association and Leander Paes for male chauvinism. ...
11:45 PM, Jun 27, 2012
National selector SP Mishra said that a player can chose his or her partner for an open event, but they don't have that preference while representing the country. ...
05:15 PM, Jun 27, 2012
New Delhi: The All-India Tennis Association (AITA) has rejected Sania Mirza's criticism that she was used as a "bait" to pacify the warring duo of Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi ahead of the 2012 London Olympics, saying the decision to pair Sania with Paes is based on merit. "Selection for the Olympics is based on merit," the AITA secretary general Bharat Oza said in a statement, read by the executive...
01:26 PM, Jun 27, 2012
The IBN18 Editor-in-Chief feels that the spat between Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi is unbecoming of champions. ...
03:14 PM, Jun 23, 2012
Hello and welcome to DRS - my very own personal space where we discuss matters cricket. This week I thought we would discuss not so much cricket but the wider world of sport, particularly because this has been one of the most depressing weeks when it comes to Indian sport, quite simply because of the soap opera that Indian tennis has been reduced to. One of the great joys over ...
02:55 PM, Jun 23, 2012
Hello and welcome to DRS - my very own personal space where we discuss matters cricket. This week I thought we would discuss not so much cricket but the wider world of sport, particularly because this has been one of the most depressing weeks when it comes to Indian sport, quite simply because of the soap opera that Indian tennis has been reduced to. One of the great joys over...
02:55 PM, Jun 23, 2012
Mumbai: Leander Paes was distraught for the better part of Thursday after the All India Tennis Association (AITA) picked two teams for next months London Olympics pairing Mahesh Bhupathi with Rohan Bopanna and Paes with Vishnu Vardhan, ranked 207 in the world doubles. I am at a loss for words right now. Im shocked that we have given in to dirty politics. My ranking [World No. 7] makes me the...
11:05 AM, Jun 23, 2012
New Delhi: Faced with a pullout threat from Leander Paes, the All India Tennis Association (AITA) has sent one of its selectors to London to pacify the veteran who is miffed at not getting a partner of choice for the men's doubles event of the London Olympics. The world number seven doubles player, who is the only Indian to have got a direct entry into the Olympics on the basis...
11:19 AM, Jun 22, 2012
New Delhi: CNN-IBN has reliably learned that Leander Paes has decided to back out of the Olympics, merely hours after the All Indian Tennis Association (AITA) announced on Thursday that it will send two men's doubles teams to London. AITA had paired Paes with Vishnu Vardhan and Mahesh Bhupathi with Rohan Bopanna, but as Paes father Vece had indicated to CNN-IBN, the Indian tennis veteran has not agreed with the...
05:58 PM, Jun 21, 2012
New Delhi: India's External Affairs Minister SM Krishna on Thursday played a key role in convincing Leander Paes to pair-up with Vishnu Vardhan and end the week-long drama over the selection of the men's doubles team for the London Olympics. Krishna, honorary life president of the All India Tennis Association (AITA), spoke with Paes early on Thursday morning and convinced him to pair with Vishnu for the sake of the...
03:50 PM, Jun 21, 2012
Putting an end to the tennis row, AITA has decided to send two men's doubles teams to London: Bhupathi-Bopanna and Leander-Vishnu Vardhan. ...
02:53 PM, Jun 21, 2012
New Delhi: Vece Paes, father of Leander Paes, has said that the All Indian Tennis Associations (AITA) decision to send two men's doubles teams to the London Olympics has not been conveyed to his son, and that the Indian tennis ace may not even accept it. "The decision hasn't been conveyed to Leander, so we'll just have to wait for Leander to react to it. He is in London at...
02:31 PM, Jun 21, 2012
AITA has announced that it will send two doubles teams to Olympics: Bhupathi-Bopanna and Leander-Vishnu Vardhan. ...
02:01 PM, Jun 21, 2012
The young Indian tennis player expressed his happiness at AITA's decision to pair him with Paes at the Olympics. ...
01:53 PM, Jun 21, 2012
