Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi on Wednesday inched closer to their first joint Olympic medal by reaching the quarterfinals of the men's doubles event.
The Indo-Czech pair beat the Bryan brothers Bob and Mike in the men's doubles quarter-finals at Wimbledon.
They beat the Indo-Belarusian pair of Mahesh Bhupathi and Max Mirnyi to make the grade at the French Open.
The ninth seeded Indo-Czech pair lost 6-7(4), 6-4, 1-6, 6-4, 6-8 to the second seeded Canadian-Serb duo, which will play Swedish veteran Jonas Bjorkman and Kevin Ullyett of Zimbabwe in Saturday's men's doubles final at Wimbledon. The eighth seeds upset top seeds Bob and Mike Bryan of the United States 7-6 (7-3), 5-7, 7-6 (7-5), 7-6 (11-9) in the first semi-final, which was interrupted by rain, on Thursday.
Leander Paes and Lukas Dlouhy were down a set at 7-6 (7-4), 4-6, 6-1, 3-3 as they battled it out in fading light against Canada's Daniel Nestor and Serb Nenad Zimonjic for a place in the final of the men's doubles at Wimbledon on Thursday night.
The ace Indian duo said the young Uzbekistan team will be tough to beat in the Asia Oceania Group One Davis Cup semi-final.
Indo-Czech pair beat Jonas Bjorkman and Tood Woodbridge in the in the Nasdaq-100 Open.
India's non-playing captain Mahesh Bhupathi on Wednesday said he will assess Leander Paes at training before deciding on the team composition for their Davis Cup tie against Uzbekistan, starting in less than two days.
Leander Paes and Tommy Robredo held their nerves in the super-tie breaker to stun third seed Israeli duo of Jonathan Erlich and Andy Ram and book a quarterfinal berth in the Euro 2,270,000 Hamburg ATP Master Series event on Wednesday night.
The US Open champions beat Andy Ram and Jonathan Erlich 6-4, 7-6(6) at the Shanghai Masters.
Leander Paes and Radek Stepanek, seeded fourth, are drawn against Daniele Bracciali of Italy and Jonathan Erlich of Israel in the first round of the men's doubles at Wimbledon, starting Monday.
India's Davis Cup captain says it will be tough to decide the two slots between Prakash Amritraj, Harsh Mankad and him for the match against Uzbekistan.
The 42-year-old Leander Paes's dream of appearing in a record seventh Olympics may remain just that if Rohan Bopanna decides to play with a player ranked lower than the world No 46.
Rohan Bopanna and Rajeev Ram ousted fifth seeds Leander Paes and Paul Hanley in the second round of the Australian Open.
Leander Paes and Radek Stepanek brushed aside the challenge of Colin Ebelthite and John Peers in straight sets to progress to the second round of the men's doubles event of the Wimbledon championships on Thursday.
Leander Paes and Lukas Dlouhy set up a quarter-final clash with Mahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles after a straight-set win over Roger Federer and Stainslas Wawrinka in the second round of ATP Rogers Masters in Toronto on Thursday night. The seventh seeded Indo-Czech pair needed less than an hour to beat their unseeded Swiss opponents 6-4, 6-4.
Paes and his Czech partner Radek Stepanek beat Jerzy Janowicz and Lukasz Kubot while Bopanna and Edouard Roger-Vasselin got the better of Andreas Seppi and Mikhail Youzhny in second round matches.
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The Indo-Czech pair scored a convincing 6-1, 6-4 win over Agustin Calleri of Argentina and Spain's Tommy Robredo.
Indian Davis Cup captain Leander Paes, who has been invited for the Olympic torch relay, said he has not yet made up his mind in this regard but feels boycotting the event for political reasons is not right.
In Paes's absence, seasoned Rohan Bopanna and Saketh Myneni will do the doubles duty in the July 17-19 tie, to be held in Christchurch.
The seventh seeds beat Australia's Peter Luczak and Shannon Nettle in the first round of the Australian Open men's doubles.
All eyes will be on veteran Leander Paes, who is the on the cusp of a historic world record in perhaps his last appearance in Davis Cup.
The top seeded Indo-Czech pair squandered a one-set lead and two match-points while going down to Jeff Coetzee and Rogier Wassen.
Top seed Indian men's doubles pair of Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi have been handed out an easy draw but Rohan Bopanna and Somdev Devvarman were not as lucky and the duo will have to toil hard when the Commonwealth Games gets underway on Sunday.
Miffed at not getting a 'specialist' men's doubles partner, veteran tennis star Leander Paes, on Thursday, pulled out of the 18th Asian Games starting on Saturday.
The Indo-Czech pair, who hasn't lost a set so far, beat eight seeded Israeli pair of Jonathan Erlich and Andy Ram 6-4, 7-5 in the Gold Group at the Tennis Masters Cup in Shanghai on Tuesday.
The fifth seeds beat Poland's Mariusz Fyrstenberg and Marcin Matkowski 6-3, 7-5 in a second round early morning match.
Leander Paes and Rohan Bopanna won the doubles match 6-2, 6-2, 6-2 to help India to a 1-0 lead against Kazakhstan.
Mahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles thrashed Lukasz Kubot and Oliver Marach 6-3, 6-1 to enter the final of the men's doubles at the Australian Open in Melbourne on Thursday. They meet second seeded Americans Bob and Mike Bryan, who beat the fourth seed pair of Leander Paes/Lukas Dlouhy 6-3, 6-3 in the other semi-final.
Veteran Indian tennis player Mahesh Bhupathi claims it was Leander Paes' decision to end their much-hyped reunion within a year as he felt that they "were possibly a little too old on the tour and not able to gel on a consistent basis."
Top seeded pair of Leander Paes and Horia Tecau were ousted from the ATP Thailand Open after losing a hard-fought semifinal against Eric Butorac and Paul Hanley in Bangkok on Friday.
Paes said that he would pair up Bhupathi in January to play a few tournaments in the lead up to the 2004 Olympics Games.
Paes and Damm beat Novak Djokovic and Janko Tipsarevic of Serbia 7-6 (6), 4-6, 6-3 at the Australian Open on Thursday.
"Let's not start a new controversy between Leander (Paes) and me now," said Mahesh Bhupathi, almost immediately after his former partner's name had cropped up, palpably keen on avoiding a fresh war-of-words.
The third seeded Indo-Czech pair went down tamely to Russia's Mikhail Youzhny and Serb Nenad Zimonjic in the doubles final at the Qatar Open.
The ace Indian pair rallied from the brink to beat the Ratiwatana brothers, Sanchai and Sonchat, of Thailand in a thrilling two-hour 43 minute final.
The defending champions beat Hiu Tung Yu and Wing Luen Wayne Wong of Hong Kong 6-0, 6-4 in first round of the Asian Games doubles.
The pair was beaten by Australia's Paul Hanley and Zimbabwe's Kevin Ullyett.
The Indo-Czech pair beat the Danish-German pair of Kristian Pless and Benjamin Becker in the quarter-finals.
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