Nine-times Wimbledon men's doubles champion Todd Woodbridge said on Thursday it was "heartbreaking" to hear the All England Club had made the decision to cut the event to best-of-three sets rather than five from this year.
World number two Andy Murray will not be working with Swede Jonas Bjorkman next year after his French coach Amelie Mauresmo resumed her role following the birth of her son.
Top seeds Mahesh Bhupathi and Max Mirnyi got a walkover in the semi-final when their opponents Cyril Suk and Martin Damm withdrew.
Jonas Bjorkman, the deputy coach of Andy Murray, says that he is relishing his partnership with the British ace and is happy to be a part of his team.
Gunning for a record seventh appearance at the Olympics this year, one more milestone beckons veteran Indian tennis star Leander Paes which is a testament to his longevity on the professional circuit. If the 42-year-old veteran manages to win 11 more matches on the ATP doubles tour this season, he will displace American Sherwood Stewart in the list of players with most number of doubles wins. Stewart is sitting sixth in the table with 728 wins while Paes, a winner of 17 Grand Slam titles, has taken his number to 718 after reaching the third round of the ongoing French Open in Paris. These staggering statistics do not include Paes' victories in the mixed doubles event and the ones on the ATP Challenger Tour. Last year when Paes recorded his last win of the season, he overtook Sweden's Jonas Bjorkman (712), ending 2015 with 713 wins.
The fifth seeded mixed doubles pair of Leander Paes of India and Cara Black of Zimbabwe entered the final of the US Open with a straight-set victory on Wednesday.
The Indian ace and his Croatian partner rallied from a set down to stun third seeds Jonas Bjorkman and Thomas Johansson and enter the second round.
Four-times French Open champion Rafael Nadal opened his grasscourt season on Wednesday with a ruthlessly efficient 6-2, 6-2 victory over experienced Swede Jonas Bjorkman at the Queen's Club ATP tournament. Andy Roddick began his pursuit of a fifth Queen's title by preceding Nadal on Centre Court and thumped down 15 aces to beat compatriot Robby Ginepri 6-7, 6-1, 6-1.
India's Mahesh Bhupathi and his partner Mark Knowles of the Bahamas defeated South African duo Wesley Moodie and Jeff Coetzee 6-2, 6-3 in their first group league match of the season-ending Masters Cup in Shanghai on Sunday.
Mahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles beat Jonas Bjorkman and Kevin Ullyett 6-2, 6-4 in the semi-finals of the Madrid Masters.
Roll of honour at the 2004 Wimbledon tennis championships.
Leander Paes continued his winning run to advance to the mixed doubles' semifinals but it was curtains for Mahesh Bhupathi at the US Open.
The fifth seeds defeated fourth seeded Paul Hanley and Kevin Ullyet 6-3, 7-6 (4).
The Indo-Czech duo was beaten 3-6, 4-6 their final round-robin match at the Tennis Masters Cup in Shanghai.
Mahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles beat American wild card duo of Mardy Fish and John Isner 7-5, 6-7(5), 12-10 in the quartfinals.
Second seeds Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonjic defeated Jonas Bjorkman and Kevin Ullyett 7-6 6-7 6-3 6-3 to win their first Wimbledon doubles title on Saturday.
The ninth seeded Indo-Czech pair lost 6-7(4), 6-4, 1-6, 6-4, 6-8 to the second seeded Canadian-Serb duo, which will play Swedish veteran Jonas Bjorkman and Kevin Ullyett of Zimbabwe in Saturday's men's doubles final at Wimbledon. The eighth seeds upset top seeds Bob and Mike Bryan of the United States 7-6 (7-3), 5-7, 7-6 (7-5), 7-6 (11-9) in the first semi-final, which was interrupted by rain, on Thursday.
In his last All England Club campaign, Jonas Bjorkman and partner Kevin Ullyett sent top seeds Bob and Mike Bryan crashing out of Wimbledon to reach the men's doubles final on Thursday. Seeded eighth, Bjorkman of Sweden and Zimbabwe's Ullyett ended the American brothers' hopes of a fourth consecutive Wimbledon doubles final, winning 7-6, 5-7, 7-6, 7-6.
Doubles specialist Jonas Bjorkman announced on Monday he would retire from professional tennis at the end of the season.
They defeated Jonas Bjorkman of Sweden and Australia's Alicia Molik in the mixed doubles final at Wimbledon.
France's Arnaud Clement beat Jonas Bjorkman indoors at the Nottingham Open for his second successive victory over a previous tournament winner, having earlier disposed of defending champion Richard Gasquet.
The Indo-Czech duo lost lost 3-6, 5-7 to top seeds Jonas Bjorkman and Max Mirnyi in Monte Carlo Masters semi-final
Mahesh Bhupathi and Radek Stepanek advanced to the second round of the Monte Carlo Masters with a straight-sets victory over Frenchmen Arnaud Clement and Michael Llodra.
Brothers Mike and Bob Bryan retained their Australian Open men's doubles title on Saturday after a 7-5, 7-5 victory over Jonas Bjorkman and Max Mirnyi.
The world number one registered a crushing 6-2, 6-3, 6-2 win over Swede Jonas Bjorkman to enter the third round of the Australian Open.
The Indo-Czech pair, who hasn't lost a set so far, beat eight seeded Israeli pair of Jonathan Erlich and Andy Ram 6-4, 7-5 in the Gold Group at the Tennis Masters Cup in Shanghai on Tuesday.
Leander Paes and Martin Damm surprised defending champions Jonas Bjorkman and Max Mirnyi in their opening doubles match of the season-ending Tennis Masters Cup in Shanghai on Sunday. The fourth-seeded Indo-Czech pair, drawn in the Gold Group, beat the sixth-seeded Swede-Belarusian duo 6-4, 6-1 in a little over and hour.
The Indo-Belgian duo had earlier in the quarter-finals of the Stockholm Open shocked fourth seeds Jeff Coetzee of South Africa and Rogier Wassen of the Netherlands.
Prakash Amritraj will take on Jonas Bjorkman in the opening singles of the Davis Cup World Group play-off.
The United States won 4-1 and will host defending champions Russia in the final.
Mark Knowles and Daniel Nestor beat the Indo-Czech duo 6-3, 6-4 in the semi-final of the French Open doubles.
Mahesh Bhupathi Radek Stepanek advanced to the semi-finals of the men's doubles at the French Open beating second seeds Jonas Bjorkman and Max Mirnyi.
The Indo-Czech pair shocked seventh seeds Jonathan Erlich and Andy Ram of Israel in the third round at the French Open.
Bhupathi and Woodbridge defeated Graydon Olivier and Travis Parrott to enter the pre-quarterfinals of the Nasdaq-100 Open.
The Indo-Czech pair lost to second seeds Jonas Bjorkman and Max Mirnyi in the second round in Monte Carlo.
Germany were the fastest team into September's semi-finals, continuing a long tradition of thrashing Belgium.
The Indo-Czech duo beat Austria's Julian Knowle and Jurgen Melzer 6-4, 6-7 (1), 10-6 over in the second round.
The Indo-Czech duo beat Jonas Bjorkman and Max Mirnyi to enter the final of the Pacific Life Open tennis tournament.
Daniel Nestor of Canada and Elena Likhovtseva of Russia claimed the mixed doubles title at the Australian Open.
The second seeded pair suffered a straight set loss against Sweden's Jonas Bjorkman and Max Mirnyi of Belarus.
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