The crisis that has rocked Indian tennis escalated with the players rejecting the compromise formula offered by the AITA. ...
09:23 PM, Jan 07, 2013
The Indian challenge in the Aircel ATP Chennai Open tennis tournament effectively ended when top seeded duo of Mahesh Bhupathi and Canadian Daniel Nestor, playing in their first event together, went down 4-6, 5-7 to South African Raven Klaasen and American Nicholas Monroe in the doubles quarter-finals here on Thursday. ...
11:47 PM, Jan 03, 2013
AITA backed its Davis Cup support staff, saying it was not prepared to change the captain and the coach. ...
09:15 PM, Jan 02, 2013
The All India Tennis Association (AITA) on Wednesday said they are examining the concerns of the eight elite players who have shot off a communication to the federation, demanding drastic changes in the way the country's Davis Cup team is handled by the AITA. ...
02:14 PM, Jan 02, 2013
Tennis player Mahesh Bhupathi was seen holding his daughter during the ATP Chennai Open tennis tournament. ...
01:01 PM, Jan 02, 2013
Bhupathi indicated that all his issues with the AITA have been sorted out and he may play in the upcoming Davis Cup tie against Korea. ...
07:33 PM, Dec 31, 2012
Bopanna and his then partner Bhupathi were banned by AITA for not abiding by the selection decision for the Olympics. ...
05:38 PM, Dec 28, 2012
Chennai: Veteran tennis players Mahesh Bhupathi and Daniel Nestor will kickstart their doubles partnership with the Aircel Chennai Open beginning here December 31. The Indo-Canadian pair will be the top seed for the tournament. Bhupathi won his 50th career doubles title last season and will look at Chennai Open as the ideal platform to start the new year on a winning note. The 38-year-old Indian teamed up with countryman Rohan...
08:06 PM, Dec 21, 2012
New Delhi: Some fine individual achievements were pushed out of public memory as a shattered Olympic dream, wrecked primarily by avoidable ego clashes, hogged the spotlight in a turbulent year for Indian tennis. Ageing star Leander Paes began 2012 with a bang as he completed his career Slam by grabbing the Australian Open with new partner Radek Stepanek in January. Sania Mirza won her second Grand Slam when she triumphed...
01:27 PM, Dec 21, 2012
New Delhi: India's Rohan Bopanna has announced his partnership with American Rajeev Ram for the 2013 ATP season. His current partner Mahesh Bhupathi will team up with Canadian Daniel Nestor. Bhupathi-Bopanna ended 2012 with a runners-up finish at the World Tour Finals in London Monday on top of titles earlier in Dubai and Paris. Bopanna is excited about his new pairing with the world no. 44 Ram. "I played with...
03:59 PM, Nov 13, 2012
New Delhi: Rohan Bopanna has confirmed his partnership with American Rajeev Ram for the next ATP season, the move comes in the wake of Mahesh Bhupathi-Bopanna combine deciding to part ways. While Bhupathi will be partnering Canadian Daniel Nestor, Bopanna will be seen pairing up with long-time friend Rajeev on the ATP circuit next year. The duo has a combined experience of 17 years on the professional circuit. "Rohan and...
10:26 AM, Nov 13, 2012
London: Marcel Granollers and Marc Lopez won the doubles title at the ATP finals by beating Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna of India 7-5, 3-6, 10-3 on Monday. The sixth-seeded Spaniards won their third title of the season. They also won in Rome and Gstaad, and will have a chance to add the Davis Cup title next weekend against the Czech Republic in Prague. The top-seeded Bryan brothers, Bob and...
01:54 AM, Nov 13, 2012
London: Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna saved a match point to breeze into the title clash of the ATP World Tour finale after defeating Leander Paes and Radek Stepanek via Super tie-breaker, here on Sunday. The fifth seeded Indian pair halted the winning run of the Indo-Czech combination with a 4-6, 6-1, 12-10 win in the semi-finals and in the process avenged the defeat of the Shanghai Masters final last...
07:47 PM, Nov 11, 2012
London: Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna on Wednesday won their first Group B match with a 6-3 5-7 10-5 win over Robert Lindstedt and Horia Tecau to keep their semifinal at the ATP World Tour Finals. It was a good comeback for fifth seeds Bhupathi and Bopanna after losing the first match to Jonathan Marray and Frederik Nielsen. Bhupathi and Bopanna raced to a 3-0 lead by breaking Lindstedt's serve...
08:42 PM, Nov 07, 2012
London: The Indian pair of Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna squandered two match points before losing its first match of the ATP World Tour Finals against Jonathan Marray and Frederik Nielsen on Tuesday. The Indians, making their debut as a pair in the elite season-ending event, lost their Group B match 6-4 7-6 (1) 10-12 against the British-Denmark combination in one hour and 36 minutes. Bhupathi and Bopanna are coming...
08:54 PM, Nov 06, 2012
Mahesh Bhupathi continues to laugh in the All India Tennis Association’s face. The Indian stalwart combined with Rohan Bopanna to come up trumps at the Paris Masters on Sunday, beating the Pakistani-Dutch pair of Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi and Jean-Julien Rojer 7-6 (6), 6-3. It was the Indian pair's first ATP World Tour Masters 1000 title. For Bhupathi every success post-London Olympics is a strong statement towards the tennis governing body, which...
09:40 PM, Nov 04, 2012
London: India will host South Korea in a Davis Cup Asia/Oceania Group I first round tie, which will be held from February 1-3 next year. In the draw held here on Tuesday, India have been seeded fourth in the Group I while Australia got top billing in the eight-team Group. India had retained its place in Group I after routing New Zealand 5-0 in the play-off tie in Chandigarh last...
05:37 PM, Oct 23, 2012
New Delhi: Leander Paes remained unchanged at number five but Rohan Bopanna on Tuesday re-entered the doubles top-10 on the back of his runners-up finish at the ATP Shanghai Masters. Paes won the Shanghai Masters on Monday with Radek Stepanek, who also moved two places up to number six. Bopanna jumped four places to number 10 after gaining 600 ranking points. Bopanna's partner Bhupathi improved his ranking by two slots...
06:18 PM, Oct 15, 2012
Shanghai: Indian duo of Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna has set up a summit clash with Leander Paes and his Czech partner Radek Stepanek after both the pairs won their respective semifinal matches in the Shanghai Masters here Saturday. The seventh seeded Indian combo reached its second ATP World Tour Masters final of the season after beating British pair of Colin Fleming and Ross Hutchins 6-7 (4) 6-3 10-8 in...
06:53 PM, Oct 13, 2012
