Leander Paes and Radek Stepanek, seeded fourth, are drawn against Daniele Bracciali of Italy and Jonathan Erlich of Israel in the first round of the men's doubles at Wimbledon, starting Monday.
Rohan Bopanna and Mahesh Bhuapthi advanced to the second round of the men's doubles at the Australian Open with their respective partners, in Melbourne, on Wednesday, even as Somdev Devvarman and Sania Mirza bowed out of the men's singles and women's doubles respectively.
Mahesh Bhuapthi and Rohan Bopanna won their first title together after pipping Polish pair Mariusz Fyrstenberg and Marcin Matkowski in the summit clash of the ATP Dubai Open on Saturday.
Mahesh Bhuapthi and Rohan Bopanna, who need to improve their rankings to earn a direct entry to the London Olympics, stormed into the final of the ATP Dubai Open on Friday. The fourth seeded Indian pair got the better of the giant-killing Austrian pair of Julian Knowle and Alexanderin Peya 7-6(2), 7-6 (7) in the semi-finals of the US $1,700,475 hardcourt event.
Mahesh Bhuapthi and Rohan Bopanna progressed to the quarter-finals of the ATP Dubai Open, but Chennai Open winners Leander Paes and Janko Tipsarevic were ousted in the first round.
India kept alive their hopes of staying in the elite Davis Cup World Group as Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna scored a hard-earned 7-5, 3-6, 6-3, 7-6 (3) win over Yuichi Sugita and Tatsuma Ito in the marathon doubles rubber in the play-off tie against Japan in Tokyo on Saturday.
Sania Mirza, on Sunday, reached her first ever French Open women's doubles quarter-finals with partner Elena Vesnina but Mahesh Bhuapthi's campaign ended after suffering a second round defeat in the mixed doubles along with Jie Zheng.
India badly missed Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhuapthi as Rohan Bopanna and Somdev Devvarman lost the crucial doubles rubber to hand a 2-1 lead to top seeds and defending champions Serbia in the Davis Cup World Group first round tie, in Novi Sad, Serbia, on Saturday.
Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhuapthi have been placed in Gold and Red groups respectively for the US $4,450,000 Tennis Masters Cup, in Shanghai. Paes and his Czech partner Lukas Dlouhy are seeded sixth in the Gold Group along with three other teams. Bhupathi and his Bahamian partner Mark Knowles are seeded third and find themselves with the top seeded pair of Mike and Bob Bryan.
CGK Bhupathi came out in defence of his son saying that Leander Paes' allegations were 'unethical'.
Charleston will always be special to me," said the new World No 1 in women's doubles.
Sania Mirza on Sunday created history by becoming the first female tennis player from India to achieve the World No 1 rank.
Only one of world tennis' Big Four -- Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray and Rafael Nadal -- will feature in the upcoming season of the Indian Premier Tennis League, which has shifted base to Hyderabad.
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