Sania Mirza, who is teaming up with Israeli Shahar Peer, is seeded 16th in the ladies championships at Wimbledon.
Rohan Bopanna's fine showing in the opening singles could see him partner Mahesh Bhupathi in Saturday's crucial doubles, in the Davis Cup tie against Uzbekistan.
Sania Mirza will partner Fabrice Santoro while Mahesh Bhupathi will play with Paola Saurez in the French Open mixed doubles.
Ace Indian doubles duo Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi won their doubles rubber against Romania to close the gap to 1-2 in the Davis Cup World Group Play-off.
Reader Saurav Sachdev sent us a picture of Sania Mirza from Melbourne.
Despite their differences, the duo are set to team up for India again at the 2008 Olympics, having finished fourth in Athens four years ago.
Bhupathi said on Wednesday the former world number one pair should play together to give India the best shot at a medal.
The Indian duo squandered numerous chances before surrendering the Australian Open mixed doubles title to fifth seeds Tiantian Sun and Nenad Zimonjic on Sunday.
Indian ace Leander Paes returned to top 10 in the men's doubles after winning the mixed doubles and finishing runner-up in the doubles at the US Open.
The All India Tennis Association in a statement said the Davis Cup is absolutely clean and no such incident has ever been heard of before or in recent past in India.
Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi survived their respective tough first rounds to advance at the Australian Open.
Mahesh Bhupathi and his Australian partner Samantha Stosur lost the plot towards the end and crashed out of US Open mixed doubles event after a see-saw second round battle in New York.
India's Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi won their respective matches to advance into the pre-quarterfinals of the US Open on Friday.
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.
They were beaten by the Czech duo of Martin Damm and Cyril Suk in the first round of the Paris Masters.
The Indo-Bahamian pair beat Italians Simone Bolelli and Andreas Sippi 6-3, 5-7, 10-7 to set up a clash with fourth seeds Brazillians Marcelo Melo and Andre Sa.
Keeping in mind Italians' weakness on grass, India have opted for grass courts in South Club here for the February 1-2 fixtures which will be played in new format with the winners making a cut to the 18-nation finals in Madrid next year.
Reader Viju Kulkarni Patil sent us a picture of Mahesh Bhupati from the USA.
The second edition of the Virat Kohli-backed Indian Sports Honours were held on Friday in Mumbai where the top performers in 17 sporting disciplines were felicitated.
India's Mahesh Bhupathi and his Bahamian partner Mark Knowles cruised into the second round of US $ 708,000 Pilot Pen tennis tournament on Tuesday with a straight sets win in the opening round in New Haven. The second seeded Indo-Bahamian pair got the better of French duo of Marc Gicquel and Nicolas Mahut 6-2, 6-3 in one hour and 14 minutes.
Indian pair of Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi crashed out of men's tennis doubles event losing their quarterfinal match to Swiss duo of Roger Federer and Stanislas Wawrinka in the Beijing Olympics on Friday.
Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi on Wednesday inched closer to their first joint Olympic medal by reaching the quarterfinals of the men's doubles event.
Fifteen kids were awarded scholarships after a month-long selection process for the Mission 2018 programme.
Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi eased past Gael Monfils and Gilles Simon to enter the pre-quarter-finals in the men's doubles of the tennis event at the Beijing Olympics. The ace Indian duo, seeded seventh, beat the young Frenchmen 6-3, 6-3 in the first round on Tuesday.
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.
Moments after winning the US Open men's doubles trophy, his 10th Grand Slam title, Indian ace Leander Paes said he wasn't sure if he would be able to play the final as he was carrying a sore shoulder.
Leander Paes and Lukas Dlouhy recovered from a set down to beat third seeds Mahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles in a thrilling final and win the men's doubles title at the US Open on Sunday. The third seeded Indo-Czech pair shrugged off a sluggish start to score a 3-6, 6-3, 6-2 victory and claim their second Grand Slam title of the year, having won the French Open in June.
Leander Paes and his Czech partner Lukas Dlouhy prevailed over Mahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles in the super tie-breaker to breeze into the doubles semi-finals of the US $ 2,615,000 ATP Rogers Masters in Toronto. Paes-Dlouhy, seeded seventh edged past fourth seeded Bhupathi-Knowles 6-4, 3-6, 10-5 in one hour and 15 minutes in the quarter-finals of the hard court event.
Leander Paes and Lukas Dlouhy set up a quarter-final clash with Mahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles after a straight-set win over Roger Federer and Stainslas Wawrinka in the second round of ATP Rogers Masters in Toronto on Thursday night. The seventh seeded Indo-Czech pair needed less than an hour to beat their unseeded Swiss opponents 6-4, 6-4.
The fourth seeded Indo-Bahamas pair got a walkover from the American duo of Mardy Fish and Andy Roddick in the second round of the ATP Rogers Masters.
The Indian player has dropped two places to be ranked 33rd on the WTA charts.
Top seeds Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi could not recreate their old chemistry and crashed out of the Indianapolis tennis championship with a first round defeat. The 'Indian Express' pair failed to hold their nerve in the match tie-break and went down to the Canadian duo of Daniel Nestor and Frederic Niemeyer 4-6, 6-3, 10-12 in one hour and 25 minutes.
Leander Paes will partner Russian Maria Kirilenko in the mixed doubles event of the French Open
Indian cricketer Yuvraj Singh is close to sealing a deal with tennis player Mahesh Bhupathi's sports marketing agency Globosport after his seven-year contract with Percept Talent Management ends in a few weeks. The move could prompt Percept taking Yuvaraj Singh to court because it is believed to have the first right to refusal to match the Globosport offer.
Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi went down in straight sets to the unseeded Croat-Austrian pair of Mario Ancic and Jurgen Melzer in the final of Ordina Open. The second seeded Indians, who were aiming for their first ATP title together in four years, went down 6-7 (5), 3-6.
The second seeds Indian pair beat the Argentine combine of Juan Martin Del Potro and Guillermo Canas 6-7, 6-3, 10-7 in an hour and 44 minutes in the semi-finals at 's-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands.
Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi kept Indian hopes alive in the Ordina Open by advancing to the doubles semi-finals, even as Sania Mirza and Rohan Bopanna bowed out of the singles in the US $175,000 tournament in s'Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands. The second seeded Indian pair produced glimpses of their old magic as they sailed past Spaniards David Ferrer and Marcel Granollers 6-2, 6-1 in 48 minutes to advance to the last four.
The shocking first-round exit from the French Open last week has left Mahesh Bhupathi down four rungs at 13th in the latest ATP doubles rankings issued on Monday. On the other hand, Leander Paes, who made a third-round exit in the doubles' event of the clay court Grand Slam, moved up one spot to 23rd with 1995 points.
Indian tennis ace Leander Paes sees his new union with Lukas Dlouhy from the Czech Republic as a minor challenge on the ATP tour.
The All India Tennis Association has declined to consider Mahesh Bhupathi's request to play with Rohan Bopanna at the Beijing Olympics.
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