Marcos Bagdhatis proved too hot to handle for Prakash Amritraj as the Indian lost to formidable Cyprus star in straight sets at the ATP Vancouver Open.
Prakash Amritraj advanced to the second round of the US $100,000 Vancouver Open ATP event after a straight set win against Croat Ivan Dodig but his doubles journey ended in the opener itself. The unseeded Indian won 7-5, 6-3 to set up a meeting with Cyprus star and third seed Marcos Baghdatis.
Mahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles survived a scare before defeating Prakash Amritraj and Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi to advance to the quarter-finals of the Wimbledon men's doubles event, in London on Monday.
Indian Davis Cupper Rohan Bopanna and Aisam-ul Haq Qureshi extended their good run at the ATP South Africa Open to the final after scoring a hard-fought semi-final victory in the doubles event. The third seeded Indo-Pak pair edged past the fifth seeded American duo of Erico Butorac and Rajeev Ram 7-6(5), 6-4 in the semi-finals on Friday night.
Rohan Bopanna and his Pakistani partner Aisam-ul-Qureshi finished their Indianapolis Tennis Championships campaign on a sordid note after pulling out of their quarter-final encounter midway due to a back injury to the Indian. The unseeded Indo-Pakistani were trailing 2-6, 0-1 against the Australian-American pair of Ashley Fisher and Tripp Phillips when Bopanna decided to pull out.
Rohan Bopanna and his Pakistani partner Aisam-ul-Qureshi stunned fourth seeds Igor Kunitsyn and Dmitry Tursunov in the opening round to advance to the quarter-finals of Indianapolis Tennis Championships. The unseeded Indo-Pakistani pair beat their Russian rivals 2-6, 7-5, 10-6.
Veteran Leander Paes brushed off the disappointment of Rio Olympics as he and his German partner Andre Begemann made it to the final of the ATP Winston-Salem Open beating Swede Robert Lindstedt and Pakistan's Aisam-ul Haq Qureshi in a close encounter.
Top seeds Rohan Bopanna and Aisam Qureshi went down fighting in straight sets to third seeded Russian pair of Michail Elgin and Alexandre Kudryavtsev in the semi-final of the LTAT-SAT Bangkok Open ATP Challenger in Bangkok on Saturday.
Amid continuing uncertainty over the fate of the national carrier, an official said there is also need for funds to restart operations of 12 grounded narrow-body planes.
Prakash Amritraj's doubles campaign at the Hall of Fame Tennis Championships ended after he and partner Giles Muller lost in the the quarter-finals in Newport. Wild card entrants Amritraj-Muller went down 4-6, 2-6 against Rik de Voest of South Africa and Ashley Fisher of Australia.
Rohan Bopanna and his Pakistani partner Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi crashed out of the euro 42,500 ATP Challenger series tournament in Aachen, Germany, after losing a tough quarter-final to the German pair of Andreas Beck and Philipp Petzschner. The Indo-Pakistani duo won the first set but then lost their way as the Germans won 5-7, 6-4, 13-11 to advance to the semi-finals of the tournament.
Top seeds Leander Paes and Lukas Dlouhy survived a scare from Rohan Bopanna and Aisam Qureshi to advance into the second round of the US $576,000 Bangkok Open on Thursday. Paes-Dlouhy beat the unseeded Indo-Pak combine 7-6, 4-6, 10-7 in an hour and 40 minutes. They will take on Tomas Berdych of Czech Republic and Simone Bolelli of Italy, who overcame the Australian pair of Jordan Kerr and Todd Perry 6-3, 6-3.
Mahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles defeated the Swedish pair of Johan Brunstrom and Thomas Johansson 6-3, 6-4 in their first match at t he US Open while India's Rohan Bopanna and Aisan-ul-Haq Quershi lost 5-7, 3-6 to the French Pair of Marc Gicquel and Sebastien Grosjean in their opening match of the tournament.
Indian Davis Cupper Rohan Bopanna and his Pakistani partner Aisam-ul-Haq-Qureshi crashed out of the $ 508,000 Legg Mason Tennis Classic tournament after suffering a sets first round defeat in Washington.
Rohan Bopanna squandered three match points and lost to Nicolas Devilder in the Mumbai Open first round.
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Rohan Bopanna and Aisam Qureshi rallied from a set down to topple fourth seeded Russian duo of Dmitry Tursunov and Igor Kunitsyn in the first round in Indianapolis.
Rohan Bopanna and Aisam Qureshi went down 6-4, 7-6(1) to unseeded American duo of Mardy Fish and John Isner in the doubles final.
The Indian Davis Cupper was beaten 2-6, 3-6 by Russia's Konstantin Kravchuk.
Indian Davis Cupper Rohan Bopanna and Aisam-ul-Haq-Quershi rallied from a set down to defeat Ashutosh Singh and Purav Raja and advance to the doubles semi-finals of the US $50,000 ATP Challenger event in Korat, Thailand. The top seeded Indo-Pak pair lost the opening set but came back well to beat the Indian pair 4-6, 6-3, 13-11 in the quarter-finals.
The Pakistani tennis ace had to miss out on the Chennai Open singles qualifying and did not have a doubles partner to choose from.
No Indian Davis Cup squad has travelled to Pakistan since March 1964 and in that tie, held in Lahore, India had won 4-0.
India's Rohan Bopanna was knocked out of the men's doubles at the French Open after he along with his Pakistani partner Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi were outplayed by top seeds Mike and Bob Bryan in the opening round. The unseeded Indo-Pak combine, who made their Grand Slam debut as a pair, went down 1-6, 4-6 in just 53 minutes in the first round clash on Thursday.
Rohan Bopanna and Aisam Qureshi will make their French Open debut against top seeds Mike and Bob Bryan.
National champion Ashutosh Singh and compatriot Vishnu Vardhan took different exit routes as India's challenge in men's singles of the $ 50,000 ATP Challenger tennis tournament came to a screeching end in New Delhi on Wednesday.
Top seeds Rohan Bopanna and Aisam Qureshi bowed out of the US $50,000 ATP Challenger Series in New Delhi after losing 2-6, 3-6 in the first round to the unseeded combination of Prakash Amritraj and Rajeev Ram at the DLTA.
The Indo-Pak pair entered their sixth straight semi-final when they beat Sander Groen and Florian Mayer at the Malaysia ATP Challenger.
The Indo-Belgian pair beat Thomas Johansson and Todd Perry 6-2, 6-7(4), 10-8 in the first round in Stockholm.
The Indo-Pakistan duo will take on third seeds Jarkko Nieminen of Finland and Robert Lindstedt in the championship round.
The Indo-Pak pair put in a clinical performance to eliminate the Indian wildcard pair of Stephen Amritraj and Somdev Dev Varman 6-3, 6-2 at the Mumbai Open on Monday.
Leander Paes made a first-round exit from the $ 1,410,000 Barclay Dubai Tennis Championships but Indian hopes were kept alive by Rohan Bopanna who stormed into the doubles quarterfinals of the hard court event.
The Pakistani said he was looking forward to repeat the performance at the US Open later this month.
The Indo-Pak pair beat Michel Kratochvil and Gilles Muller 7-6 (8), 6-3 to win the Segovia Challenger.
Top seed Qureshi was leading 4-3 in the first set when the sixth seeded Indian withdrew because of a stomach ailment.
The Indo-Pakistan pair set up a second successive quarter-final meeting at the Challenger tournament in Nottingham.
They will take on Thai twins Sanchai and Sonchat Ratiwatana in the doubles final at the Chennai Open.
The Indo-Pak team defeated Jesse Huta Galung of the Netherlands and Michael Ryderstedt of Sweden in the final of the grass court event.
Rohan Bopanna and Prakash Amritraj crashed out in their respective men's singles semi-final matches at ATP Challenger Series tournaments being simultaneously played in England and the United States.
The Indian Davis Cupper beat Japanese qualifier Takahiro Terachi in the US $75,000 Comerica Challenger Series tournament in Aptos, California.
Sunil Kumar Sipaeya set up a quarter-final clash with second seed Aisam-ul Haq Qureshi of Pakistan after his opponent and compatriot Rohan Bopanna retired.
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