London: Roger Federer does not have a clue about the turmoil that rocked Indian tennis before the Olympics but the world number one is quite sure that Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna have a decent chance of winning a medal at the London Games. Bhupathi and Bopanna had a bitter feud with the All India Tennis Association after refusing to play with India's no. 1 doubles player Leander Paes and...
11:07 AM, Jul 27, 2012
Mumbai: If there was one happy man after the recent controversy involving the selection of the Indian tennis team for the London Olympics, it would have to be Vishnu Vardhan. The 24-year-old rookie consequently got the opportunity to partner five-time Olympian and the countrys top-ranked player Leander Paes in the mens doubles event that begins this weekend at Wimbledons hallowed turf after both Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna refused to...
01:09 PM, Jul 25, 2012
Tennis star Mahesh Bhupathi will be playing his fifth Olympics at London 2012, while for his doubles partner Rohan Bopanna it's the first. ...
09:37 AM, Jul 24, 2012
New Delhi: Indian tennis player Rohan Bopanna gained a place in the ATP World Tour doubles rankings to go up to 13th with 4,540 points. The Bangalore boy last played in the recently concluded Hamburg Open where he, partnering Mahesh Bhupathi, lost in the quarter-finals to Jeremy Chardy and Gilles Simon. Bhupathi on the other hand dropped a place to 16th with 4,330 points. Bhupathi-Bopanna are ranked seventh as a...
03:48 PM, Jul 23, 2012
London: India tennis star Mahesh Bhupathi on Monday said he never thought of playing in his fifth Olympics and expressed the desire to meet Jamaican sprint star Usain Bolt during the London Games beginning Friday. "Well to be honest, when I started my career it never occurred to me that I will figure in the Olympics for the fifth time (in a row). This is a very special moment for...
02:56 PM, Jul 23, 2012
New Delhi: Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna may have fought hard to be sent as a team to the Olympics but they don't have much of a chance on the medal front given the line-up of stars which will compete in London, feels former Davis Cup captain Jaideep Mukherjea. Since joining forces at the start of the 2012 season, Bhupathi and Bopanna have played 14 tournaments together and won one...
12:16 PM, Jul 15, 2012
New Delhi: A divided house filled with animosity like never before - that's what the Indian tennis contingent looks like heading into the London Olympics but it would be a mistake to write off the players even though they seem a vulnerable lot given the pre-Games bickering. The build up to the Games has been far from ideal as the players were busy squabbling over who will pair with whom...
01:37 PM, Jul 12, 2012
In an exclusive interview with CNN-IBN, Sania Mirza spoke on a variety of issues, including the latest Olympic selection row. Rajdeep Sardesai: We appreciate your joining us Sania. First your views on Roger Federrer. Seven titles now, Incredible. Is he the greatest Wimbledon champion, you think? Sania Mirza: I think that Roger Federrer is the greatest champion ever, not just Wimbledon I mean. Its amazing, hes an absolute genius and...
02:47 PM, Jul 10, 2012
In an exclusive interview to CNN-IBN, Sania Mirza said she is past the selection row and now is eyeing a good show with Leander Paes in the London 2012 mixed-doubles. ...
09:06 PM, Jul 09, 2012
New Delhi: Sania Mirza on Monday said that the bitter London Olympics tennis selection row created bad blood among the players and also strained her relationship with Mahesh Bhupathi but she has left it behind to focus on winning a medal in mixed-doubles with Leander Paes. Paes was forced to pair with lower-ranked Vishnu Vardhan in men's doubles after both Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna refused to play with him. He...
08:11 PM, Jul 09, 2012
So this blog is supposed to review changes in India over the past decade. But of course there are some things that don't change. ...
05:01 PM, Jul 06, 2012
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
London: Indian tennis stalwarts Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi, who were locked in a selection row for the London Olympics recently, saw their fortunes take different turns on Saturday with the former reaching the third round of the men's doubles event while the latter crashed out of mixed doubles competition of the Wimbledon here. The French Open champion pair of Bhupathi and Sania Mirza, who later joined the selection row...
06:02 PM, Jun 30, 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
London: India's Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna notched up a straight-set victory and advanced to the second round of the men's doubles event at the Wimbledon on Wednesday. The seventh-seeded Indian combination got the better of Marcel Felder of Uruguay and Tunisia's Malek Jaziri 6-0 7-6 (1) 6-2 in an hour and 36 minutes at the All England Club. The duo will take on the winner of the match between...
07:37 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
Catch the day's top stories on India at 9 with Rajdeep Sardesai. ...
11:54 PM, Jun 21, 2012
