The Indian pair was drawn in a relatively easy bottom half in the men's doubles tennis at the Athens Games.
Bollywood made its presence felt on the final day of the Delhi leg in the International Premier Tennis League with Aamir Khan, Deepika Padukone and Askhay Kumar playing an exhibition match alongside Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic and Sania Mirza.
A shoulder injury will keep the Indian ace out of the Grand Slam that has seen him win four titles.
The top seeded Indian pair beat Pakistan's Aisam Qureshi and Aqeel Khan in the men's doubles quarter-finals at the Asian Games.
The Wimbledon girls' doubles champ will play less junior events and focus on her fitness.
The defeat against Chinese Taipei put India out of the tennis team event at the Asian Games.
The Indian ace and Elena Likhovtseva beat 15th seeds Daniel Nestor of Canada and Lina Krasnoroutskaya of Russia in the third round at Wimbledon.
The sixth seed Indo-Serbian duo lost to Michael Llodra and Fabrice Santoro of France, seeded eighth, 6-3, 6-2.
The Indians pairing with David Rikl and Max Mirnyi respectively scored contrasting wins in the first round doubles at Wimbledon.\n\n
Leander Paes and Nenad Zimonjic received a bye in the first round and would meet Nicolas Kiefer and Alexander Waske
They were beaten by French duo Michael Llodra and Fabrice Santoro in the semifinals of the ATP Tennis Masters in Rome.
India took an unassailable 3-0 lead against Uzbekistan by winning the doubles event in the second round of the Davis Cup Asia Oceania Zone Tennis tournament.
The third seeded pair registered a comfortable 6-3, 6-4 win against Karsten Braasch of Germany and Sargis Sargsian of Armenia.
Mahesh Bhupathi and Elena Likhovtseva were knocked out in the first round of the mixed doubles, while Leander Paes and David Rikl crashed out of the men's double.
The Indo-Belarussian pair rallied to beat Slovakia's Karol Kucera and Australia's Todd Perry in the second round at the French Open.
Fifth seeds Leander Paes and Nenad Zimonjic of Serbia entered the semi-finals of the Monte Carlo Masters, beating the Czech pair of Martin Damm and Radek Stepanek.
They comprehensively outplayed the Czech pairing of Frantisek Cermak and Leos Friedl in straight sets on Sunday.
But Leander Paes and Nenad Zimonjic failed to make it to the second round in the Nasdaq Open tennis tournament.
The duo were adjudged best by the Hero Indian Sports Academy.
Leander Paes said he wants to clear misgivings so that the country could field its best doubles team at the Doha Asian Games.
Leander Paes and Nenad Zimonjic entered the second round of the Pacific Life Open tournament.
Rohit Rajpal will continue as India's non-playing captain. He took over as captain last year after the country's top players and then captain Mahesh Bhupathi refused to travel to Pakistan in November. India is scheduled to travel to Croatia for their next tie on March 6 and 7.
The trio will be in action at the $25,000 ATP Challenger, beginning in Bangalore on Monday.\n\n
The doubles ace said the three youngsters are the future of Indian tennis.
The top seeded Indo-Belarussian pair defeated Jiri Novak\n\nand Petr Pala of the Czech Republic 6-3 6-2 in the semifinals,\n\naccording to information reaching here.
The Indo-Australian pair got the better of Rainer Schuettler and Mikhail Youzhny 4-6, 6-4, 6-2 in the second round of Dubai Open.
Rohan Bopanna and Daniel Nestor went through several anxious moments before making it to the second round, even as Mahesh Bhupathi and Jurgen Melzer failed to, in the men's doubles at the Australian Open, in Melbourne, on Thursday.
The Indo-Aussie pair was beaten by fifth seeds Wayne Black and Kevin Ulleytt of Zimbabwe 7-6(7-3), 6-3 in the quarter-finals.
The third seeds beat the Spanish duo of Albert Costa and Rafael Nadal to enter the last eight of the men's doubles at the Australian Open.
Germany's Rainer Schuettler and Taipei's Yen Hshun Lu upset the top-seeded pair 7-5, 4-6, 7-6(7-4) on Sunday night.
India's non-playing captain, however, refused to write off Japan in the Davis Cup match.
The second seeds lost to the French pair of Fabrice Santoro and Michael Llodra in the quarter-final of the men's doubles.
The duo will team up for the Chennai Open, beginning on January 3.
The former world No. 1 pair will play against each other at the ATP event in January.
India's tennis stars enjoyed comfortable wins in the Australian Open on Thursday as Sania Mirza eased into the second round with partner Martina Hingis while Rohan Bopanna also registered a straight sets victory in the men's doubles first round.
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