Indian Davis Cupper Rohan Bopanna and his Pakistani partner Aisam-ul-Haq-Qureshi crashed out of the $ 508,000 Legg Mason Tennis Classic tournament after suffering a sets first round defeat in Washington.
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Rohan Bopanna and Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi on Saturday missed out on their second ATP Tour title of the season as they lost the final of the Nice event in France despite a rollicking start. Bopanna and Qureshi had grabbed a one-set lead in quick time but could not survive the counter-attack of Marcelo Melo and Bruno Soares to lose 6-1, 3-6, 5-10 in one hour and 13 minutes.
'To win a medal, the players will have to play a couple of tough rounds. The draws are fine, and balanced and give us the opportunity to go deep.'
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.
National champion Ashutosh Singh and compatriot Vishnu Vardhan took different exit routes as India's challenge in men's singles of the $ 50,000 ATP Challenger tennis tournament came to a screeching end in New Delhi on Wednesday.
Indian Davis Cupper Rohan Bopanna and Aisam-ul Haq Qureshi extended their good run at the ATP South Africa Open to the final after scoring a hard-fought semi-final victory in the doubles event. The third seeded Indo-Pak pair edged past the fifth seeded American duo of Erico Butorac and Rajeev Ram 7-6(5), 6-4 in the semi-finals on Friday night.
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.
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.
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.
The India-Pakistan pair beat Adrian Cruciat of Romania and Adrian Menendez of Spain to make the grade in the ONGC ATP Challenger.
The Indo-Pakistani duo lost to the top seeded Australian-South African pair of Stephen Huss and Wesley Moodie 7-6(10), 6-3 at the $150,000 Malaysian Open ATP Challenger tournament in Kuala Lumpur .
Aisam Qureshi beat Ashutosh Singh 6-3, 6-3 to enable Pakistan beat India 2-1 in the second leg of the tennis series in Islamabad.
After conceding the first leg, Pakistan hit back strongly to go 1-0 up against India in the bilateral tennis series.
Vivek Shokeen defeated Aqeel Khan to give India a 1-0 lead in the second edition of the India-Pakistan tennis series.
India's Rohan Bopanna and Pakistan's Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi will resume their partnership at the US $416,000 ATP Mumbai Open, at the Cricket Club of India from September 24 to 30.
The US-based Indian player lost 4-6, 4-6 to China's Zi Yan in the final qualifying round of the US Open.
The Indian went down fighting 7-6 (1), 7-6 (3) to Czech Republic's seventh seed Jan Hernych.
The 20-year-old Hyderabadi maintained her doubles ranking of 26.
The Indo-Pak Express knocked out Algerian Ouahab and Spaniard Vicente 6-3 6-4 in the semifinals.
Michel Kratochvil beat him in the USD 125,000 ATP Challenger Series in Segovia, Spain.
They outplayed Ghouse and Goodall in the summit clash of the USD 25,000 ATP Challenger tennis event in Nottingham.
The Indo-Pakistan duo beat top seeds Harel Levy of Israel and Lars Burgsmuller of Germany in the semi-finals.
The Indo-Paki pair overcame a tough challenge from Olivier Charroin and Thomas Oger of France in the quarter-finals of the Nottingham Challenger.
The Indian youngster shocked the Pakistani second seed in the US $25,000 ATP Challenger.
The Indian Davis Cupper shocked fifth seed Brunc Echagaray of Mexico in the quarter-finals.
Rohan Bopanna and Aisam-ul Haq Qureshi entered the doubles semi-finals, beating Dominiq Meffert and Simon Stadler of Germany in the US $25,000 ATP Challenger in Manchester.
They were knocked out by top seeds Wesley Moodie and Fabrice Santoro at the Hall of Fame Tennis Championships in Newport.
The Indian wild card beat Serbian Ilia Bozolijac in the first round of Hall of Fame Championships.
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.
The 'Indo-Pak Express' defeated the French duo of David Guez and Nicolas Tourte 6-2, 7-6(1) in the quarter-finals of the ATP Challenger in Bronx.
The top seeds won 6-4, 6-3, 6-2 to set up a second round clash with Jiri Novak and Radek Stepanek.
The fourth-seeded Indo-Canadian pair got the better of second seeds Jean-Julien Rojer of the Netherlands and Romania's Horea Tecau 4-6, 7-6(9), 11-9 in a close semi-final.
The 16th seeds, Bopanna and Middelkoop, who have played some exhilarating tennis throughout
The Pakistani won his third singles title in a row defeating top seed Harsh Mankad in straight sets.
This was the first Futures title on Indian soil for the third seeded Pakistani.
Vishal became the only Indian to enter the semifinals of the ONGC ITF Futures men's tennis tournament in Dehradun.
The top seeded Indo-Pak pair defeated Josh Goffi and Jason Marshall, the second seeds in the final.
