London: Veteran Indian tennis player Leander Paes, who turned 40 on June 17, has been seeded fourth with Czech partner Radek Stepanek in the men's doubles competition at Wimbledon which starts on Monday. Another veteran Mahesh Bhupathi with Austrian Julian Knowle has been seeded eighth while Rohan Bopanna, with Frenchman Edouard Roger-Vasselin, has been seeded 14th. In the women's doubles category, Sania Mirza has been seeded sixth with American partner...
07:24 PM, Jun 19, 2013
London: Indian tennis pair Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna lost their men's doubles semifinal clash to top seeds Bob and Mike Bryan of the US in straight sets at the Aegon Championships. The Bryan brothers won 6-4, 6-2 in 41 minutes and will take on Austro-Brazilian fourth seeds Alexander Peya and Bruno Soares in the final at the Queen's Club grass courts. The Indian third seeds were clearly not in...
01:14 PM, Jun 16, 2013
London: Indian tennis pair Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna reached the semi-finals of the Aegon Championships men's doubles with a hard fought victory over fifth seeded British pair Colin Fleming and Jonathan Marray here on Friday. The third seeds edged the local pairing 7-6 (7/5), 4-6, 10-4 in an hour and 32 minutes. The Indians will face fourth seeds Alexander Peya of Austria and Bruce Soares of Brazil next. ...
08:37 AM, Jun 15, 2013
London: Indian tennis pair Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna entered the Aegon Championships men's doubles quarterfinals here Thursday. The third seeds got a walkover after French pair of Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Nicolas Mahut decided to not take part in the second round doubles game after playing their respective singles matches on the grass courts of the Queen's Club. The Indian duo will play the winners of the match between Benoit...
11:42 PM, Jun 13, 2013
Paris: India witnessed a mixed outing in the men's doubles event of the French Open as Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna crashed out in the first round even as veteran Leander Paes and his Austrian partner Jurgen Melzer eased into the next stage, here. Seeded fourth, Bhupathi and Bopanna had a forgettable outing at the Roland Garros last night as they were stunned 5-7, 4-6 by unseeded Polish combination of...
10:25 AM, May 29, 2013
New Delhi: Indian tennis star Mahesh Bhupathi, who has launched his ambitious International Premier Tennis League (IPTL) with the backing of a galaxy of top stars, says his event would be TV, spectator and players friendly because of its unique model. Superstars such as Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray, Serena Williams, Rafael Nadal and legends Andre Aggasi and Pete Sampras have promised to feature in the league, which is expected to...
02:54 PM, May 26, 2013
New Delhi: Indian tennis star Mahesh Bhupathi, who has launched his ambitious International Premier Tennis League (IPTL) with the backing of a galaxy of top stars, says his event would be TV, spectator and players friendly because of its unique model. Super stars such as Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray, Serena Williams, Rafael Nadal and legends Andre Aggasi and Pete Sampras have promised to feature in the league, which is expected...
09:04 PM, May 25, 2013
Rome: Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna ended runners-up at the Rome Masters after a tame straight sets defeat at the hands of top seeded American team of Mike and Bob Bryan here on Sunday. The sixth seeded Indian combination lost 2-6 3-6 in the summit clash of the euro 3,204,745 clay court event. Such was the domination of the veteran American pair that Indians could not earn even a single...
08:11 PM, May 19, 2013
Rome: Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna reached the semi-finals of the Rome Masters after getting a walkover from rivals Tomas Berdych and Radek Stepanek even as Sania Mizra and Bethanie Mattek-Sands crashed out of the women's event, here. Berdych, who shocked world number one Novak Djokovic in the men's singles in a gruelling three-setter, cited muscle fatigue as the reason for him withdrawing. Bhupathi and Bopanna will now fight it...
01:49 PM, May 18, 2013
Rome: Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna entered the quarter-finals of the Rome Masters but it was curtains for Leander Paes and his Austrian partner Jurgen Melzer, here. Sixth seed Indian combo of Bhupathi and Bopanna scored a 6-2 6-3 win over unseeded British team of Dominic Inglot and Jonathan Marray in the second round of the Euro 3,204,745 elite clay court tournament. However, Paes and Melzer made an early exit...
05:19 PM, May 17, 2013
Madrid: Indian Challenge ended at the Madrid Open with the straight set defeat of Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna at the hands of unseeded team of Jeremy Chardy and Lukas Kubot, here. An off-colour Indian team squandered all the six points it earned in the second set to suffer a 2-6 4-6 defeat against the French-Polish combo in the quarter-finals of the euro 4,303,867 clay court tournament. The Indians could...
10:42 AM, May 11, 2013
New Delhi: Bollywood star Lara Dutta would like to see her tennis star husband Mahesh Bhupathi on the silver screen. "I would like to see Mahesh on the screen but I don't think he will ever come in front of the camera," said the former miss universe. Bhupathi married Lara in February, 2011. The couple was blessed with a daughter in January, 2012. Talking about her 15-month old daughter, Saira,...
05:32 PM, Apr 27, 2013
Monte Carlo: Leander Paes and Jurgen Melzer overcame sixth seeds Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna to advance to the quarter-finals of the men's doubles of the Monte Carlo Masters here on Thursday. The Indo-Austrian pair took 57 minutes to defeat Bhupathi-Bopanna 6-2, 6-3 at the 1000-point ATP clay-court tournament. Paes-Melzer broke their opponents thrice out of the nine opportunities they got in comparison to the Indian pairings' zero conversion rate...
08:18 PM, Apr 18, 2013
Monte Carlo: Leander Paes and his Austrian partner Jurgen Melzer advanced to the second round of the Monte Carlo Masters here with a comfortable straight sets victory over local pair Benjamin Balleret and Guillaume Couillard. The unseeded Indo-Austrian pair beat the wildcards 6-3, 7-5 in an hour and eight minutes on Monday. Paes and Melzer will play Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna, who were given a bye in the opening...
08:27 PM, Apr 16, 2013
New Delhi: Sania Mirza has also joined Indian Tennis Players Association (ITPA) as one of its vice presidents, it was revealed on Sunday. Sania is now one of the four vice presidents of the newly-formed body with Leander Paes, Mahesh Bhupathi and Somdev Devvarman being the other VPs. "Happy to announce that @MirzaSania has consented to be a VP of @TennisITPA and she has been co opted unanimously. Welcome aboard...
08:24 PM, Apr 14, 2013
