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 an hour and 36 minutes.
While the fourth seeded Indo-Czech duo outplayed Marin Cilic of Croatia and Brazil's Marcelo Melo 6-0 6-2 in just 57 minutes.
In a hard-fought battle, Bhupathi and Bopanna came from a set down to make it to the final. The Indian pair could convert only one out of the six breakpoints opportunities to pocket the match....
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06:53 PM, Oct 13, 2012
New York: He missed out on a third US Open men's doubles title but Indian tennis star Leander Paes was far from dejected as he insisted that he and his Czech partner Radek Stepanek gave all that they had in the final clash against champions Mike and Bob Bryan. Fifth seeds Paes and Stepanek lost 6-3 6-4 to the second-seeded Bryan brothers in the summit clash Friday night. Paes was...
10:52 AM, Sep 08, 2012
Melbourne: India's veteran tennis ace Leander Paes created history by becoming the first Indian to complete a career Grand Slam of winning all the four Major titles by winning the Australian Open men's doubles event in Melbourne on Saturday. Paes and his Czech partner Radek Stepanek thrashed world No.1 pair Mike and Bob Bryan from the US in straight sets in the final at the Rod Laver Arena. The Indo-Czech...
06:12 PM, Jan 28, 2012
New York: Austria's Jurgen Melzer and Germany's Philipp Petzschner won their second Grand Slam doubles title, beating Mariusz Fyrstenberg and Marcin Matkowski in straights sets in the US Open final on Saturday. The ninth-seeded Melzer and Petzschner won 6-2, 6-2 in 49 minutes. They also won Wimbledon last year. Fyrstenberg and Matkowski, from Poland, were seeded sixth. This was their first-ever Grand Slam final appearance. Melzer and Petzschner combined for...
01:48 PM, Sep 11, 2011
Paes has won a men's doubles title at a Major after three years. ...
12:39 AM, Jun 07, 2009
