Former Davis Cup player Premjit Lall on Wednesday passed away at his residence in Kolkata after a prolonged illness.
When contacted, AITA Secretary General Anil Dhupar said he does not have any objection to Bopanna playing with Balaji, ranked 84, at the Paris Olympics.
Doubles star Sania Mirza returned to the Indian Fed Cup team after four years as she was named in the five-member squad, which features country's top singles player Ankita Raina. Sania last played Fed Cup in 2016 and has been out of action since October 2017 as she took a two-year break to start a family.
Former Davis Cupper Jaideep Mukherjea was appointed president of the newly-formed Indian Tennis Players Association (ITPA) while Leander Paes was surprisingly named as one of three vice presidents.
Akhtar Ali played eight Davis Cup ties between 1958 and 1964 and also captained and coached the Indian team.
The All India Tennis Association formed a three-member committee, including Justice Deepak Verma and former Davis Cupper Naresh Kumar, to resolve the issues with the rebel players, but its suggestions apparently would not be binding on the national tennis federation.
Mahesh Bhupathi, who led a revolt of 11 players against the All India Tennis Association, has slammed the AITA for the way it formed a three-member panel to look into the issues raised by the rebels, alleging that the panel would be 'biased' and serve no purpose.
Former Davis Cupper Anand Amritraj has described the ongoing crisis in Indian tennis following the players' revolt against the AITA a shame and said that both the parties should work out a comprise formula and resolve the issue quickly.
Former Davis Cupper Prakash Amritraj outplayed Saketh Myneni in straight sets to lift the Men's singles title at the $ 15,000 Solaris ITF Future Tennis Championships in Pune on Saturday.
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Stephen Amrtiraj and Mustafa Ghouse won the doubles title at the Dehradun Futures.
Prakash Amritraj and Karan Rastogi will contest the singles final at the Chandigarh ITF on Saturday.
It was a bad day for Indians at the $ 10,000 ITF men's event as all of them bowed out of the singles event after losing their second round matches.
The Kolkata-based lad beat Yew-Ming Si of Malaysia to enter the second round in the MSLTA-ITF Satellite tournament.
The former Davis Cupper won the men's singles and doubles title at the Pune Open Men's National Ranking Tennis Championship.
Chairman of selectors Shyam Minotra said Amritraj, the highest ranked Indian on the ATP at 317, deserved to be in the team.
Yeu-Tuoo Wang of Chinese Taipei, at 204, is the highest ranked player in the fray for the ITF Futures tennis tournament in Mumbai.
Both posted contrasting victories in the ITF Satellite tennis tournament.
Former Davis Cupper Rohit Rajpal, who was already a member, has been elevated as Chairman.
The AITA has appointed former Davis Cupper Anand Amritraj as the new non-playing captain of the Davis Cup team, which will take on Chinese Taipei in the Asia/Oceania Group I tie next year.
Shifting of India's only ATP event from Chennai to Pune after 21 years has disappointed the Amritraj brothers.
Bhupathi said AITA did not have the courtesy to inform him that he won't continue as captain.
'All Mahesh needed to do was send an e-mail to Leander that he was not being considered in final four and mark a copy to AITA'
The franchise-based Champions Tennis League, which will begin its second season next month, will help end India's search for quality singles players, its promoter and former Davis Cupper Vijay Amritraj said.
'The only thing I am feeling bad right now is, if he had decided earlier to not come even two weeks or 10 days ago, we would have got a specialist doubles team in place'
Mahesh Bhupathi said he has no 'personal agenda' in keeping Leander Paes out of India's Davis Cup team and said his former partner's decision to leave Bangalore mid-way into the tie was a final nail in the coffin.
India will be represented by Shubhankar Sharma and Anirban Lahiri at this year's World Cup of Golf slated to be held at The Metropolitan Golf Club in Melbourne from November 21 to 25.
Young Yuki Bhambri brought India back in the Davis Cup match against New Zealand after Somdev Devvarman was beaten in the opening singles.
As Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis stand on the threshold of a unique milestone, former India players discuss the Hyderabadi's contribution in the all-conquering partnership with Bikash Mohapatra/Rediff.Com.
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