New Delhi: Putting an end to the row surrounding the selection of India's team for the London Olympics, the All Indian Tennis Association (AITA) announced on Thursday that it will send two men's doubles teams to the Games, where Leander Paes will partner Vishnu Vardhan and Mahesh Bhupathi will team up with Rohan Bopanna. Backing Paes, AITA made it clear that it did not envisage an Indian Olympic team without...
01:35 PM, Jun 21, 2012
New Delhi: In a new twist to the row surrounding India's participation in the tennis event at the London Olympics, sources confirmed to CNN-IBN that Leander Paes has rejected the two-team formula mooted by the All Indian Tennis Association (AITA) after Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna refused to partner Paes at the doubles event. Moreover, according to sources, Paes has insisted on being paired with a 'worthy partner' and wants...
04:00 PM, Jun 20, 2012
New Delhi: The All India Tennis Association (AITA) is considering softening its stance on the row surrounding the selection of the men's doubles team to represent India at the upcoming London Olympics. Sources have told CNN-IBN that a final decision will be taken by Wednesday evening and that the association is open to sending two teams, where Leander Paes may partner Vishnu Vardhan as one team and Mahesh Bhupathi and...
11:26 AM, Jun 20, 2012
New Delhi: With just over a day to go to file entries for the Olympics, India is making a final bid to send a tennis team. After Sports Minister Ajay Maken backed out from the ongoing tennis impasse, External Affairs Minister SM Krishna has stepped in to resolve the issue. Krishna, who is also the Life President of the All India Tennis Association (AITA), has asked AITA President Anil Khanna...
08:52 AM, Jun 20, 2012
CNN-IBN looks deeper into the Bhupathi-Paes row that has rocked Indian tennis. ...
11:49 PM, Jun 19, 2012
New Delhi: Sports Ministry officials will be meeting representatives from the All India Tennis Association (AITA) here shortly to try and find a solution to the row over India's men's doubles tennis team for the London Olympics beginning in just over a month's time. While there are reports that AITA may agree to field two teams as demanded by the Sports Minister Ajay Maken, those are merely rumours at the...
03:47 PM, Jun 19, 2012
Vece Paes talks to CNN-IBN, accusing Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna of "stabbing" his son Leander Paes. ...
09:26 AM, Jun 19, 2012
Mahesh Bhupathi has sent an official letter to the AITA saying he will not play with Leander Paes in London Olympics. ...
12:18 AM, Jun 19, 2012
New Delhi: The ongoing row in Indian tennis has escalated with Rohan Bopanna officially refusing to play with Leander Paes at the upcoming London Olympics. While the All India Tennis Association (AITA) declared on Sunday that it had not received any communication from Mahesh Bhupathi on his refusal to play with Paes, the news that Bopanna has issued an official statement refusing to be paired with the veteran tennis player...
01:24 PM, Jun 18, 2012
New Delhi: Confusion and intrigue reign supreme as the decision looms on who should pair up for India at the London Olympics, with Leander Paes, Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna locked in a game of musical chairs. According to reports, both Bhupathi and Bopanna have written a letter to the All India Tennis Association that they will play only if they are paired together. But as the only Indian player...
07:27 PM, Jun 13, 2012
India's greatest sportspersons over the last two decades probably are Sachin Tendulkar, Leander Paes and Viswanathan Anand. Tendulkar's success is well-documented for the simple fact that the country lives and breathes cricket. The spotlight hasn't much been on tennis and chess troubadours Paes - India's only medalist in the 1996 Olympics - and Anand, who has won five world championship titles. V Krishnaswamy in his book Sachin: A Hundred Hundreds...
03:35 PM, Jun 13, 2012
Paris: The seventh seeded pair of Indian veteran Leander Paes and Austrian Alexander Peya advanced to the French Open second round after notching up a three-set win in their opening men's doubles match at Roland Garros here. Paes and Peya defeated Italians Simone Bolelli and Fabio Fognini 6-1, 6-7 (2), 6-3 in a contest lasting a little over two hours. They will now be facing the unseeded Russian-Uzbek combination of...
09:41 AM, Jun 01, 2012
Mumbai: While Leander Paes is having his dream run at the moment when it comes to his first passion " tennis, his Bollywood ambitions have taken a backseat at the moment. Currently preparing for the rigorous tennis season ahead of him " with the Olympics, the Wimbledon and the French Open, the sportsperson tells HitList that he will get back to filming again only towards the end of the month....
01:11 PM, May 31, 2012
Paris: Battling to be in the top 10 before the June 11 cut-off mark for the London Olympics, Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna were drawn against the French team of Marc Gicquel and Edouard Roger-Vasselin in their men's doubles opening round of the French Open. Bopanna and Bhupathi, ranked 12th and 13th respectively, need to be in top 10 to make a direct entry into the men's doubles event of...
11:49 AM, May 28, 2012
The 2011 men's doubles final at the Australian Open saw Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi team up for the third time in their career in an attempt to lay their hands on something that had eluded them both. However, the opponents on the other side of the net on that occasion, the Bryan (Mike and Bob) brothers went on to deny the famed Indian duo a fairytale reunion, winning the...
10:04 PM, Jan 28, 2012
Despite their denials, it appears certain that Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi are headed for a split. ...
10:26 AM, Nov 17, 2011
Mumbai: India tennis ace Leander Paes was shocked by reports that he and partner Mahesh Bhupathi are heading for splitsville... yet again! Paes and Bhupathi have had a tumultuous past that has seen them attain the World No 1 doubles ranking and thereafter splitting on a bitter note. They reunited earlier this year after nearly a decade. However, it was reported on Tuesday that they could be separating from each...
11:07 PM, Nov 16, 2011
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Yet another Paes-Bhupathi split? If the recent newspaper reports are to be believed doubles legends Mahesh Bhupathi and Leander Paes are going separate ways from ...
01:03 PM, Nov 16, 2011
Reports suggest that Rohan Bopanna will be Mahesh Bhupathi's new partner, while Leander Paes will team up with Radek Stepanek. ...
09:14 PM, Nov 15, 2011
New Delhi: Veteran tennis players Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi are reportedly heading for another split, according to reports in a national daily. After having parted ways for more than a decade, Paes and Bhupathi had reunited last year in a bid to win the Australian Open, the only Grand Slam title that has eluded them. But according to the Hindustan Times, the two are looking to play with younger...
04:16 PM, Nov 15, 2011
