"The recent developments have resulted in an atmosphere which is not conducive for a happy friendly tie between the two teams which have immense respect for each other," AITA General Secretary Hironmoy Chatterjee wrote to the ITF in an email seen by Reuters.
The Indian tennis players are "excited and available" to travel to Pakistan for the upcoming Davis Cup tie but want to be assured that all the security measures are in place before they reach Islamabad.
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They were a top pair on court and off it their differences had reached epic proportions but after so many years, Leander Paes finds it irrelevant to dissect what went wrong between him and his friend-turned-foe Mahesh Bhupathi.
Mahesh Bhupathi, Rohan Bopanna and Sania Mirza advanced to the second round of doubles events at Wimbledon on Wednesday.
The 42-year-old Paes now has won nine Grand Slam mixed doubles titles, surpassing compatriot and former partner Mahesh Bhupathi's record of eight titles.
Indian shuttler Saina Nehwal, who made an early exit from the Rio Olympic Games, will undergo a knee surgery in Mumbai on Saturday. Saina, the 2012 London Games bronze medallist, tweeted a picture of her prescription page, announcing the surgery time at a city hospital. "Surgery tomorrow (Saturday) morning at 6 am friends pls pray for me," Saina tweeted.
There is no threat to the International Premier Tennis League (IPTL), veteran Indian tennis star Mahesh Bhupathi said on Saturday, asserting that none of the team owners have pulled out and a multi-year deal was firmly in place with the country's biggest broadcaster for his ambitious event.
The Dhirubhai Ambani International School's annual day was a starry affair.
India's Sania Mirza and Switzerland's Martina Hingis entered the women's doubles third round.
It will motivate him to keep working hard and move to the top 100, feels India's Davis Cup captain Mahesh Bhupathi
The opening of Rohan Sippy's musical All That Jazz & Love saw many other Bollywood celebrities in attendance.
In a setback to India's medal chances in tennis at the Tokyo Olympics, Rohan Bopanna and Divij Sharan missed the cut for men's doubles, which also rules out the country's presence in the mixed team competition -- its best chance for a podium finish.
The inaugural International Premier Tennis League, which has borrowed its format from the lucrative Twenty20 Indian Premier League, suffered a blow when two of the world's most-famous female players snubbed the event.
Veteran Mahesh Bhupathi went out of the mixed doubles competition following a first-round loss.
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.
India's Test cricket captain Virat Kohli seems to be smitten by the International Premier Tennis League (IPTL).
India's Sania Mirza and her Swiss partner Martina Hingis produced a stirring fightback to claim the Wimbledon women's doubles title under the Centre Court roof lights on Saturday.
Indian tennis star Leander Paes and his Czech partner Radek Stepanek were seeded fourth in the men's doubles event of the Wimbledon championships, starting in London on Monday.
Lara Dutta, Sonam Kapoor and Sonakshi were among the invited guests.
Tennis ace Leander Paes is still rankled by the selection furore prior to the 2012 London Olympics and holds former partner Mahesh Bhupathi responsible for making the Games a "real sad" outing for him.
No Indian Davis Cup squad has travelled to Pakistan since March 1964 and in that tie, held in Lahore, India had won 4-0.
Mahesh Bhupathi and his South African doubles partner Kevin Anderson went down fighting in a thrilling three-setter against the pair of Alexander Peya of Austria and Bruno Soares of Brazil to crash out of the men's doubles in the Sony Open tennis tournament in Miami.
Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna won their first match at the ATP World Tour Finals, scoring a 6-3, 5-7, 10-5 victory over Robert Lindstedt and Horia Tecau in Group B to keep their semi-final hopes alive, while Leander Paes and Radek Stepanek also made a winning start.
India had a good day in office as Rohan Bopanna secured a quarterfinal berth while Sania Mirza too sealed a place in the last-eight stage with their respective partners in the mixed doubles competition at the Wimbledon on Wednesday.
Divij Sharan and Purav Raja will make their first ever appearance at a Grand Slam as the Indian duo qualified for the Wimbledon men's doubles event.
Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna entered the men's doubles quarter-finals in the Aegon Championships after receiving a walk-over from the French combo of Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Nicolas Mahut.
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 television, spectator and players friendly because of its unique model.
Even as Leander Paes celebrates his latest triumph, we take a look at his other 'Czech' partners with whom he had significant results.
Bopanna and Aisam, known as 'Indo-Pak Express' will play together since they last competed at the ATP 250 event in Shenzen in 2014.
Sania Mirza joined the tennis selection row on Tuesday when she slammed the All India Tennis Association (AITA) over the controversy surrounding her selection for the London Olympics.India's top-ranked women's player Sania Mirza joined the Olympics tennis selection row on Tuesday, slamming the All India Tennis Association on her selection for the London Games.
'I don't think you can fault us for not trying. We kept giving our best shot because we know how special a relationship it is for not just us but the country as well'
Top singles players Somdev Devvarman and Yuki Bhambri on Saturday made a return to the Indian Davis Cup team even as Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna continued to be pariahs for the crucial tie against Indonesia in April.
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Batting great Sachin Tendulkar has advised the Harmanpreet Kaur-led Indian women's team which entered its maiden T20 World Cup final on Thursday, to remain positive and "just be in the moment".
The Karnataka High court on Saturday stayed the two-year ban issued imposed on tennis players Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna by the All India Tennis Association on disciplinary grounds.
The All India Tennis Association (AITA) on Wednesday dismissed Mahesh Bhupathi's allegation that the national federation is run by only one man and asserted that it is a "democratic" institution.
Leander Paes kept the Indian challenge alive in the mixed doubles event of the French Open by moving to the second round along with partner Jelena Jankovic.
Indian tennis star Somdev Devvarman, who is leading a players' revolt against the All India Tennis Association (AITA), has lambasted the body and called it 'unprofessional' and 'unethical' for snubbing the rebel group.
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