The top seeds lost to seventh seeds Gaston Etlis and Martin Rodriguez of Argentina in the quarter-finals of the Monte Carlo Masters.\n\n
India witnessed a mixed outing in the men's doubles event of the French Open as Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna crashed out in the first round even as veteran Leander Paes and his Austrian partner Jurgen Melzer eased into the next stage, in Paris.
The dou beat Korea's Hyung-Taik Lee and Yeu-Tzuoo Wang of Taiwan in straight sets.
Bhupathi said on Wednesday the former world number one pair should play together to give India the best shot at a medal.
The men's doubles final at the US Open will be a showdown between former partners Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi. Leander Paes and Lukas Dlouhy avenged the defeat they suffered in last year's final by beating Bob and Mike Bryan in the men's doubles semi-finals on Wednesday, while third seeds Bhupathi and Mark Knowles easily beat fifth seeds Max Mirnyi and Andy Ram in the other semi 6-4, 6-2.
Third seeds Mahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles entered the semi-finals of the men's doubles at the US Open after beating Ivan Ljubicic from Croatia and Michael Llodra from France in the quarter-finals of the tournament.Earlier, Fourth seeds Leander Paes and Lukas Dlouhy entered the semi-finals, beating seventh seeds Wesley Moodie of South Africa and Dick Norman of Belgium 6-3, 5-7, 6-4 on Tuesday.
While second seeds Paes and Zimbabwe's Cara Black got the better of seventh seeds Rennae Stubbs of Australia and Robert Lindstedt of Sweden 7-5, 3-6 [10-6], top seeds Bhupathi and Liezel Huber of the United States scored an easy victory over eighth seeds Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Nenad Zimonjic, winning 6-4, 6-3.
Sania Mirza entered the mixed doubles second round with a new partner, but the Mahesh Bhupathi-Rohan Bopanna combo made a shock first-round exit from the men's doubles event of the US Open in New York on Wednesday.
The Indian pair of Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna crashed out of the men's doubles at the London Olympics, losing 3-6, 4-6 to the French pair of Julien Benneteau and Richard Gasquet, on Tuesday.
Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi are not in favour of more Indians choosing doubles over singles.
Third seeds Mahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles edged past Jeff Coetzee and Jurgen Melzer 7-6(2), 6-4 to book a quarter-final berth in the Rogers Cup, an ATP Masters 1000 tournament in Montreal. The Indo-Bahamian pair had to battle for one hour and 27 minutes to dispatch a fighting South African-Austrian pair in the second round on Wednesday night.
The duo defeated Sunil Sipaeya and Vinod Sridhar to clinch the men's doubles tennis title at the Afro-Asian Games.
India's feuding doubles pair Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi have agreed to set aside their differences and team up for the Beijing Olympics. They will play together in two events before and after Wimbledon, and then train together under the supervision of Rick Leach, Paes's coach, and Bhupathi's trainer Scott Davidoff.
It was also a bad day for India's juniors at US Open on Sunday.
The Indo-Czech pair defeated Ivan Ljubicic and Fernando Gonzalez 6-4, 6-2.
Marcin Matkowski and Mariusz Fyrstenberg beat fourth seeds Mahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles 6-4, 6-2 in the final of the Madrid Masters.
Indian mixed doubles pair of Sania Mirza and Mahesh Bhupathi suffered a straight set loss to French-Israeli duo of Nathalie Dechy and Andy Ram in the first round of the French Open in Paris on Saturday.
The Indian ace won his men's doubles and mixed doubles matches at the french Open on Saturday.
They beat Joshua Eagle and Jared Palmer in the quarter-final of the Italia Masters. \n\n
The Indian doubles ace and his new partner Wesley Moodie of South Africa lost to Oliver Marach and Lukasz Kubot at the Doha Open.
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.
Mahesh Bhupathi and Radek Stepanek advanced to the second round of the Monte Carlo Masters with a straight-sets victory over Frenchmen Arnaud Clement and Michael Llodra.
The doubles ace said the three youngsters are the future of Indian tennis.
The Indian duo squandered numerous chances before surrendering the Australian Open mixed doubles title to fifth seeds Tiantian Sun and Nenad Zimonjic on Sunday.
Tennis duo Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi will have added responsibility to return with an Olympic medal from Beijing, especially after the Indian Olympic Association accommodated extra support staff for them, a favour that eluded boxer Akhil Kumar.
The second seeds lost to the French pair of Fabrice Santoro and Michael Llodra in the quarter-final of the men's doubles.
Shubman Gill shared a picture with ace Ttennis star Rohan Bopanna on Saturday.
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 film marks the first time pairing of Vinay Pathak and Lara Dutta.
India's Mahesh Bhupathi and Elena Vesnina of Russia advanced to the mixed doubles final of the Wimbledon after pipping Australian Paul Hanley and Chinese Taipei's Su-Wei Hsieh 6-2, 3-6, 7-5 in a gruelling three-setter that lasted close to two hours.
The doubles star has confirmed for Chennai Open after missing the ATP event last year.
Indian pair of Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna made the semi-finals of the men's doubles in Aegon Championships after posting a hard-fought victory over British combo of Colin Fleming and Jonathan Marray.
Mahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles lost 4-6, 4-6 to Israel's Jonathan Erlich and Andy Ram in the semi-final.
Mahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles of the Bahamas upset top seeds Bryan Brothers to enter the semifinals of the Australian Open men's doubles competition in Melbourne on Wednesday.
The Indian pair first stunned the second seeded US-Swedish pair of Lisa Raymond and Simon Aspelin 6-3, 2-6, 10-7 in the second round to enter the quarter-finals, and then advanced a round further thanks to a walkover from their quarter-final opponents, seventh seeds Kveta Peschke and Martin Damm, who had beaten Galina Voskoboeva and Frantisek Cermak 6-1, 6-1 in their second round match.
AITA Secretary General Bharat Oza said that Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna can reach out to the executive committee and appeal against the punishment handed to them on the ground of indiscipline.
The Indo-Belgian pair beat Yves Allegro and Stanislas Wawrinka of Switzerland 6-3, 6-1
Mahesh Bhupathi and Max Mirnyi were denied entry into the Masters Cup semi-final by the Bryan brothers.
Rohan Bopanna and Mahesh Bhuapthi advanced to the second round of the men's doubles at the Australian Open with their respective partners, in Melbourne, on Wednesday, even as Somdev Devvarman and Sania Mirza bowed out of the men's singles and women's doubles respectively.
Roger Federer does not have a clue about the turmoil that rocked Indian tennis before the Olympics but the world number one is quite sure that Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna have a decent chance of winning a medal at the Games that start on Friday.
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