The Indo-Pakistan duo will take on third seeds Jarkko Nieminen of Finland and Robert Lindstedt in the championship round.
India's Rohan Bopanna was knocked out of the men's doubles at the French Open after he along with his Pakistani partner Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi were outplayed by top seeds Mike and Bob Bryan in the opening round. The unseeded Indo-Pak combine, who made their Grand Slam debut as a pair, went down 1-6, 4-6 in just 53 minutes in the first round clash on Thursday.
The Indo-Pak pair put in a clinical performance to eliminate the Indian wildcard pair of Stephen Amritraj and Somdev Dev Varman 6-3, 6-2 at the Mumbai Open on Monday.
Rohan Bopanna and Aisam Qureshi will make their French Open debut against top seeds Mike and Bob Bryan.
Indian wild card recipients Rohan Bopanna and Somdev Dev Barman got relatively easier first round matches at the ATP Kingfisher Airlines Mumbai Open.
The All India Tennis Association has declined to consider Mahesh Bhupathi's request to play with Rohan Bopanna at the Beijing Olympics.
Germany's Nicolas Kiefer was awarded the third wild card into the singles main draw of the Mumbai ATP event.
The Indian retired midway through his first round match against seventh seed Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.
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.
India's Davis Cup captain Mahesh Bhupathi refused to reveal the doubles combination for the Davis Cup tie against Uzbekistan, asserting that focus should be on winning all the matches instead of obsessing over one.
The Indian tennis contingent arrived in Doha for the Asian Games minus Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi.
India takes on China in the opening match of the Asian Hopman Cup team tennis tournament.
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 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.
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.
World No 10 Rohan Bopanna and Saketh Myneni suffered a shock straight set mauling at the hands of Artem Sitak and Marcus Daniell as India were left trailing 1-2 against New Zealand.
Tennis star Sania Mirza arrived at the Games Village of the Rio Olympics and so did the table tennis squad while the Indian hockey team won its practice match against Spain.
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.
Top seed Qureshi was leading 4-3 in the first set when the sixth seeded Indian withdrew because of a stomach ailment.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
The Indian players received two of the allotted three wild cards for the ATP event in Mumbai.
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.
Break Point is an emotional ride into Indian tennis' ultimate fairytale gone wrong, observes Deepti Patwardhan.
Senior pro Leander Paes's place in the Indian Davis Cup team will be up for discussion when the AITA Selection Committee meets on Monday to pick the squad for the upcoming Asia/Oceania Zone tie against Uzbekistan.
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