India takes on China in the opening match of the Asian Hopman Cup team tennis tournament.
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.
The start of the third day of the Asia Oceania Davis Cup round two tie between India and Japan has been delayed due to light showers in New Delhi on Sunday. Play will start at 1030 IST, the organisers said. Having already sealed the tie 3-0 on Saturday, India will field veteran doubles duo Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi in the reverse singles.
Doubles specialists Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi will play the revese singles in the Asia-Oceanic Davis Cup tie against Japan on Sunday. This was necessitated after Rohan Bopanna and Prakash Amritraj, who had put India 2-0 up on the first day of the tie, submitted medical certificates stating that they are unwell and will not be able to play the reverse singles.
India's Davis Cup captain Leander Paes denied having said that partnering Mahesh Bhupathi was the "worst decision" of his career and that it would be "utterly silly" to make a comment like that. "The context of the answer was that I regret having slowed down my singles career," Paes told reporters in New Delhi on Friday, after Rohan Bopanna and Prakash Amritraj had scripted heroic five-sets win to give India a 2-0 lead on the first day of the Davis Cup tie against Japan.
Rohan Bopanna and Prakash Amritraj scored hard-fought victories in the opening singles of the Asia-Oceania Davis Cup Round 2 tie against Japan in New Delhi on Friday. Bopanna got India off to a perfect start with a five-set victory against Japan's No 1 Kei Nishikori while Amritraj fought back from two sets down to beat Go Soeda.
The Indian challenge ended at the Roger Cup after Leander Paes and Radek Stepanek suffered a second-round defeat at the hands of Andy Murray and Colin Fleming in Montreal.
With their number one player Prakash Amritraj sitting pretty, the toss up will be between Bopanna and Mankad when India decides on the final two for the Davis Cup tie against Japan on Friday.
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.
The Indo-Pak combo have decided to extend their partnership till the year's last Grand Slam event.
Prakash Amritraj overwhelmed French sixth seed Nicolas Tourte in the first round of the US $50,000 Challenger Series tournament.
The Indo-Pak team defeated Jesse Huta Galung of the Netherlands and Michael Ryderstedt of Sweden in the final of the grass court event.
Davis Cupper Rohan Bopanna and Harsh Mankad set up a final clash against each other in the $ 10,000 ITF event after winning their respective singles semi-finals in Chandigarh on Friday.
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.
Rohan Gajjar and Purav Raja advanced to the doubles second round of the USD 10,000 ITF tennis event after registering a comfortable straight sets victory at the CLTA stadium on Monday. The third-seeded pair beat Vijayant Malik and Yannick Nelord 6-4, 6-2 in the first round match.
The Indian Davis Cupper beat Japanese qualifier Takahiro Terachi in the US $75,000 Comerica Challenger Series tournament in Aptos, California.
Rohan Bopanna and Uruguay's Pablo Cuevas lost to Raemon Sluiter and Peter Wessels in the final of the Siemens Open on Sunday.
In a match that sowed the seeds of dissention in the Indian team, Pakistan's Aqeel Khan thinks he would have always liked to play the fifth rubber against Leander Paes in the Davis Cup Asia Oceania relegation play-off tie in Mumbai in April 2006.
Indian Aces continued their winning run as they beat Manila Mavericks 24-15 on the second day of the International Premier Tennis League (IPTL) in Manila, on Saturday.
The Indian players received two of the allotted three wild cards for the ATP event in Mumbai.
Dhoni scored a brace and was fittingly awarded the 'man of the match'
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.
Rohan Bopanna says he is playing the 'best tennis' of his career after he achieved a personal goal of winning a Grand Slam title.
Divij Sharan has become not only India's number one but also the top-ranked Asian in the ATP doubles list with a recent three-place jump that took him to number 42 in the world.
Honours were even at the end of the opening day in the Asia-Oceania Group I Davis Cup match between India and Uzbekistan after Rohan Bopanna won the first singles.
India's Sania Mirza and Rohan Bopanna fell by the wayside at the Australian Open on Monday.
Rohan Bopanna and Rajeev Ram ousted fifth seeds Leander Paes and Paul Hanley in the second round of the Australian Open.
Sania Mirza and Australian partner Alicia Molik beat the unseeded Greco-German pair of Eleni Daniilidou and Jasmin Woehr 6-3, 4-6, 6-4 while Rohan Bopanna and American-Indian Rajeev Ram ousted the British-American duo of James Auckland and Sam Querrey 6-1, 7-6(4) to advance to the second round at the Australian Open.
Prakash Amritraj advanced to the final round of qualifying at the Australian Open while Rohan Bopanna lost in the second round.
'Drawing Canada is golden chance for India to get into World Group'
Indian hopes of making the final of the Hopman Cup ended when the United States defeated Australia to top Group B.
Rohan Bopanna and Aisam-ul-haq Qureshi finished runners-up at the ATP Sydney International after losing 6-7 (3), 6-7(3) to unseeded Canadian-Serbian combination of Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonjic on Saturday.
The Indian pair maintained their unbeaten run to tame Australia's Alicia Molik and Peter Luczak in the mixed doubles encounter to pull off their first win in group 'A' of the Hopman Cup in Perth on Wednesday.
The Indo-Pak pair beat the United States' Rajeev Ram and Brian Wilson in Challenge event in Denver, US.
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.
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.
Top seeds Wesley Moodie and Rik de Voest of South Africa beat second seeds Rohan Bopanna and Aisam Qureshi 6-4, 7-6 (4) in the final of the US $50,000 ATP Challenger in New Delhi on Friday.
Rohan Bopanna and Aisam-ul Haq Qureshi are on course for their fifth ATP Challenger title in five months after a hard-fought 7-6(10), 7-6(4) victory over Benjamin Balleret and Sebastien de Chaunac in the semi-finals in Delhi on Thursday. For Qureshi, it was double delight as he also scored an upset 6-2, 6-3 victory over top seed Ivo Minar of the Czech Republic in the singles quarter-finals.
