Andy Murray remains committed to playing a full part in Great Britain's Davis Cup defence despite the prospect of a packed schedule hampering the world number two's chances of leading the side to a repeat triumph.
Paes and Bhupathi will stand on the opposite sides of the net in the quarter-final of the ATP Tour tennis event in Sydney on Thursday.
Karan Rastogi and Harsh Mankad also bowed out to end the India's challenge in singles.
The top seeds beat the Belgian duo of Christophe Rochus and Tom Van Houdt to progress to the quarter-finals of the Chennai Open.
Rafael Nadal has pulled out of next week's ATP Tour Finals in London due to injury, so Novak Djokovic will end the year as world number one having returned to the top of the rankings on Monday.
Karan Rastogi was given the third and final wild card for the singles event of the Chennai Open tennis championship.
Novak Djokovic endured a fierce challenge to his Melbourne Park reign before overhauling Dominic Thiem 6-4, 4-6, 2-6, 6-3, 6-4 on Sunday to clinch an eighth Australian Open crown and reclaim the world number one ranking. While Rafa Nadal rules Roland Garros with 12 titles, Djokovic holds sway in the title match at Rod Laver Arena having never lost a final in Melbourne Park.
Richard Gasquet celebrated his 19th birthday by winning final of the Nottingham Open
The Indian Davis Cupper filled the third and final wild card slot in the main draw of the ATP event, starting in Chennai on Monday.\n\n
The Belgian world number 36 was banned for "aggravated behaviour" after being kicked out of the Nasdaq-100 tournament.
The duo would now take on top seeds Knowles and Nestor in the Pacific Life tennis championship.
The 18 year old captured his second ATP Tour title in as many weeks.
That is Murray's 46th ATP title.
Prakash Amritraj lost to Mardy Fish at the ATP event in Las Vegas while Uberoi lost to Maria Vento-Kabchi in Doha
The former world No. 1 pair will play against each other at the ATP event in January.
The second seeds lost to the French pair of Fabrice Santoro and Michael Llodra in the quarter-final of the men's doubles.
Rafael Nadal will skip the Miami Open that begins later this month in a bid to recover from a back injury in time for the clay court swing
The top seeded Indo-Belarussian pair defeated Jiri Novak\n\nand Petr Pala of the Czech Republic 6-3 6-2 in the semifinals,\n\naccording to information reaching here.
He is the first player to win an ATP tournament three times in succession on seven different occasions!
Unseeded Australian Daria Gavrilova upset fifth seed Petra Kvitova, of the Czech Republic, 6-2, 6-1 in the first round of the China Open on Saturday as Serbia's Aleksandra Krunic showed stunning powers of recovery to pull off her own shock win over sixth seed Elina Svitolina.
Leander Paes too has been offered a wild card but not yet confirmed for the January 5 to 11 event in Chennai.
The 34-year-old American is only the sixth player since men's tennis turned professional in 1968 to achieve the feat.
Germany has not produced a Grand Slam winner in the men's singles since Boris Becker won the Australian Open in 1996.
Australia's Alex de Minaur fought back from a set down to beat former world number one Andy Murray
"People talk about power, power, power, but there's still more to our game," said the American.
The Dutchman Martin soared up the ATP Tour rankings to 15th from 46th place after reaching the French Open final. \n\n
'It's a positive start with a good result. If I do months without playing an official match, it's always a little bit more difficult.'
The defending champion beat Russian Igor Andreev in straight sets at the Tata Open tennis championship.
He beat compatriot Harsh Mankad 6-3, 6-4 at the Tata Open Tennis Championship in Chennai.
Prakash Amritraj will face Harsh Mankad in the first round of the ATP Tour Tata Open at Chennai.
The Asian number one junior player benefitted from Leander Paes's injury who withdrew from the event.
The pairs of Mahesh Bhupathi/Rohan Bopanna and Sunil Kumar Sipaeya/Vinod Sridhar easily won their semi-final matches at the Afro-Asian Games.
Novak Djokovic's star still burns bright as he returns to Melbourne Park in search of a record seventh Australian Open title.
Harsh Mankad, the fifth seed defeated Seung Hoon Ho of Korea 6-1, 6-2.
Indian tennis ace Leander Paes and his German partner Andre Begemann squandered as many as five match points in the second set to eventually lose the summit clash against Guillermo Garcia-Lopez and Henri Kontinen in a three-setter at the ATP Winston-Salem Open.
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