The player and captain Leander Paes acknowledged miscommunication and resolved to put the issue behind them ahead of the Davis Cup tie against Sweden.
Indian sportspersons will be in action in the following events at 28th Olympic Games in Athens on Monday.
The Indo-Bahamas pair beat the Spanish duo of Rafael Nadal and Feliciano Lopez in the quarter-finals of the Dubai Championships.
Riding on her semifinal appearance in the just concluded Aegon Classic, Indian ace Sania Mirza jumped 20 places to reach 78 in the latest WTA singles rankings, released on Monday.
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Third seeds Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi earned a shot at their third title of the season as they set up the summit-clash of the ATP Aegon Championships against Mike and Bob Bryan in London.
The doubles specialist made the team at the expense of Prakash Amritraj, who was rendered ineligible after the new sports policy that bars foreign passport holders from representing the country. Amritraj holds a United States passport.
Ramkumar Ramanathan, who will be playing singles alongside Prajnesh Gunneswaran, will form the second men's doubles pairing with Sumit Nagal, who arrived only late on Friday night.
Somdev Devvarman's sensational run at the Chennai Open met with an anti-climactic end as the Indian lost the fiercely fought singles final to world number 27 and third seed Marin Cilic of Croatia 4-6, 6-7 (3) in Chennai on Sunday.
Somdev Devvarman on Thursday pulled off the biggest win of his career upsetting former French Open champion Carlos Moya in the second round of the US$ 450,000 ATP Chennai Open. The 22-year old US collegiate champion overcame a first set lapse to shock two-time champion Moya 4-6, 7-5, 6-4 in two hours and 11 minutes and advance to the quarter-finals.
The second highest-ranked Indian on the circuit is now perched at 262.
Prakash Amritraj will take on Jonas Bjorkman in the opening singles of the Davis Cup World Group play-off.
Indian ace Mahesh Bhupathi and his Bahamian partner Mark Knowles's final appearance at last week's Madrid Masters has booked the duo a berth in the season-ending prestigious Tennis Masters Cup to be held in Shanghai next month. The top seven teams in the ATP doubles race apart from Roland Garros winners Pablo Cuevas of Uruguay and Luis Horna of Peru would compete in the event.
Mahesh Bhupathi and partner Mark Knowles of The Bahamas moved into the quarter-finals of the euro 2,270,000 Madrid Masters after their opponents, Spaniards Rafael Nadal and Carlos Moya, opted out of the contest due to a lower back injury to the world No 1.
Somdev Devvarman expresses confidence of a good showing ahead of India's Davis Cup match against Romania.
The Indian player has dropped two places to be ranked 33rd on the WTA charts.
Rohan Bopanna and Aisam Qureshi rallied from a set down to topple fourth seeded Russian duo of Dmitry Tursunov and Igor Kunitsyn in the first round in Indianapolis.
As India gear up to host five-time champions Spain in a Davis Cup World Group Play-off tie, Saketh Myneni knows the enormity of the task at hand.
Even though they start favourites, India will announce their singles line-up for the Davis Cup tie against China only on Thursday.
The Indo-Bahamian duo lost 2-6, 3-6 to the American pair of James Blake and Mardy Fish in the pre-quarter-finals. Leander Paes, the other Indian in the fray, and his new Spanish partner Tommy Robredo got a first round bye. They face the formidable third seeded Israeli duo of Jonathan Erlich and Andy Ram in the pre-quarter-finals.
The US-based Indian was beaten by Nicholas Kiefer of Germany in the second round of the Indianapolis RCA championships.\n\n
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The doubles ace put up a brave face despite India being underdogs in the Davis Cup match against the Netherlands.
India's Davis Cup captain Leander Paes admitted there are egos to be handled in the team but expressed confidence that his boys will come out trumps in the match against Japan.
Leander Paes, who teamed with Martin Damm for his seventh Grand Slam triumph on Saturday, moved into the top 10 of the doubles rankings.
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The second seeds went down to Wayne Black and Kevin Ulyett in the Pacific Open ATP Tennis Masters.
He was included in the Davis Cup team for the Asia Oceania Group 1 tie against New Zealand from February 6 to 8.
The 22-year-old from Haryana ended runners up in the Banja Luka ATP Challenger event on Sunday following a first round appearance at the US Open last month.
Taking exception to top Indian tennis players' reluctance to compete in the recent Asian Games, the Sports Ministry on Wednesday said individual players will be able to avail government grants only if they undertake to be available for India whenever called upon.
Nursing a knee injury for more than a month, Sania Mirza dropped two places to 48th in the latest WTA rankings issued on Monday.
Sania Mirza says she has been working harder than ever before to taste title success again.
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