India's Leander Paes and Sania Mirza made it to the second round of the US Open with straight sets win in their respective doubles events, in New York, on Thursday night.
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.
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 US Open champions beat Andy Ram and Jonathan Erlich 6-4, 7-6(6) at the Shanghai Masters.
The fifth seeds beat Poland's Mariusz Fyrstenberg and Marcin Matkowski 6-3, 7-5 in a second round early morning match.
Sania Mirza and Leander Paes kept Indian hopes alive by scoring victories in their respective events but curtains were drawn on the campaign of Somdev Devvarman and Prakash Amritraj at the Australian Open in Melbourne 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.
Indian tennis veteran Mahesh Bhupathi, teaming up with compatriot Saketh Myneni, won a hard-fought doubles pre-quarter-final on Wednesday to set up a mouth-watering clash with former partner Leander Paes at the ATP Chennai Open. They beat the Sood brothers -- Chandril and Lakshit -- 6-7, 6-4, 10-6.
Paes and Damm beat Novak Djokovic and Janko Tipsarevic of Serbia 7-6 (6), 4-6, 6-3 at the Australian Open on Thursday.
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.
Sania Mirza, paring with Brazilian Bruno Soares, bowed out of the mixed doubles at the Australian Open after being beaten in the semis on Friday. Leander Paes kept himself in line for his 15th Grand Slam title by making it to the final.
The bitterness of not getting a shot at the Olympics mixed doubles event continues to rankle Leander Peas and the veteran Indian tennis star has no qualms in stating that the country did not send its best team in the event to Rio.
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.
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.
Indian tennis star Leander Paes, who recently completed his career Grand Slam, was on Sunday chosen for 'Legend of Sport' award by NDTV, which announced the Spirit of Sport awards in New Delhi.
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.
The Indo-Czech duo scored a 6-4, 6-2 win over the Swiss-German pair of Yves Allegro and Michael Kohlmann.
The ace doubles pair beat Thomas Shimada and Takahiro Terachi in the doubles rubber of the Davis Cup Asia/Oceania Group I tie.
First launched in 1924 and celebrating its centenary next year, the Wimbledon Ballot is intended to be the fairest means of obtaining tickets for The Championships.
The Sports Ministry has chosen 152 athletes across disciplines for Rs. 50,000 allowance per month for their preparations for next year's Commonwealth Games, Asian Games and the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
Fourth seeds Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi lost in straight sets to second seeds Daniel Nestor and Max Mirnyi to bow out of the ATP Shanghai Masters, in Shanghai on Saturday.
American twins Bob and Mike Bryan fell short in their bid to capture a calendar-year Grand Slam when they lost to Czech Radek Stepanek and India's Leander Paes in the men's doubles semi-finals.
Leander Paes is hoping that there will be not be repeat of a selection fiasco ahead of the Rio Olympics and feels he deserves to be paired with Rohan Bopanna and Sania Mirza for the men's and mixed doubles events.
The Indo-Czech pair defeated Jan Hernych and David Skoch of the Czech Republic in the second round.
The seventh seeds beat Australia's Peter Luczak and Shannon Nettle in the first round of the Australian Open men's doubles.
Leander Paes made a return while Yuki Bhambri was left out of a five-member Indian squad picked for the Davis Cup World Group first round tie against Russia in Moscow from March 5-7.
Fifth seeds Rohan Bopanna and Edouard Roger-Vasselin booked a quarter-final berth in the ATP Paris Masters but Leander Paes and Daniel Nestor were ousted after a straight sets defeat, in Paris.
India's Leander Paes and Zimbabwe's Cara Black rallied strongly after losing the first set to enter the mixed doubles final at the Australian Open on Friday. The duo beat Lisa Raymond of the United States and Wesley Moodie of South Africa 6-7 (6/8), 7-6 (7/5), 10-7 in a hard-fought affair.
Leander Paes and Cara Black's hopes of retaining the US Open mixed doubles crown were dashed by Carly Gullickson and Travis Parrott on the Arthur Ashe court at Flushing Meadows on Friday. The unseeded US pair came up with their best showing over the past two weeks to upset the defending champions 6-2, 6-4 in the final and claim the title.
The Indo-Czech pair beat Morocco's Younes El Aynaoui and Sultan Khalfan of the host country.
Leander Paes now stands 11th in the individual category of ATP Doubles Entry Rankings released on Monday.
The ace Indian duo said the young Uzbekistan team will be tough to beat in the Asia Oceania Group One Davis Cup semi-final.
Harsh Mankad said that there was no pressure on Leander Paes to play the singles in the upcoming Davis Cup tie against Uzbekistan
The top seeded Indian pair beat Pakistan's Aisam Qureshi and Aqeel Khan in the men's doubles quarter-finals at the Asian Games.
India's top doubles players Leander Paes and Rohan Bopanna were dumped from the US Open men's doubles competition even as Sania Mirza progressed in the mixed doubles event with her Croatian partner Ivan Dodig.
Former hockey Olympian Vece Paes says winning the Asian Games' tournament could kick-start a revival in the team's fortunes.
The Indo-Czech pair beat Leos Friedl of the Czech Republic and Mikhail Youzhny of Russia in the quarter-finals at the US Open.
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