Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna won their first match at the ATP World Tour Finals, scoring a 6-3, 5-7, 10-5 victory over Robert Lindstedt and Horia Tecau in Group B to keep their semi-final hopes alive, while Leander Paes and Radek Stepanek also made a winning start.
Aiming to win their third French Open crown together, Indian veterans Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi have been seeded third in the clay-court Grand Slam. They open their campaign against the German pair of Tommy Haas and Philipp Petzschner.
Top singles players Somdev Devvarman and Yuki Bhambri on Saturday made a return to the Indian Davis Cup team even as Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna continued to be pariahs for the crucial tie against Indonesia in April.
The Indo-Belarussian pair beat Andrei Pavel of Romania and Nenad Zimonjic of Serbia Monetnegro in straight sets in the first round of the Paris Masters.
Mahesh Bhupathi celebrated his 38th birthday in style, as he and Sania Mirza captured their second mixed doubles title together after beating Klaudia Jans-Ignacik and Santiago Gozalez 7-6, 6-1 in the French Open final on Thursday.
His combination with Max Mirnyi, with whom he won the US Open doubles\n\ncrown last year, has brought him tremendous success.
The second seeds were beaten by the Israeli pair of Jonathan Erlich and Andy Ram in the Pilot Pen tournament.
The top seeds defeated fourth seeds Jonas Bjorkman and Todd Woodbridge 6-3, 7-6(4) in the final of Tennis Masters Canada.
The Indo-Bahamian pair beat Italians Simone Bolelli and Andreas Sippi 6-3, 5-7, 10-7 to set up a clash with fourth seeds Brazillians Marcelo Melo and Andre Sa.
Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi eased past Gael Monfils and Gilles Simon to enter the pre-quarter-finals in the men's doubles of the tennis event at the Beijing Olympics. The ace Indian duo, seeded seventh, beat the young Frenchmen 6-3, 6-3 in the first round on Tuesday.
Veteran doubles specialist Mahesh Bhupathi made a comeback for national duty as a five-member Indian team for the Asia-Oceania Davis Cup tie against Uzbekistan was announced in New Delhi on Tuesday.
Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi bowed out of the French Open men's doubles event with a straight-set defeat against unseeded Australian combination of Stephen Huss and Ashley Fisher in Paris on Saturday.
Top seeds Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi could not recreate their old chemistry and crashed out of the Indianapolis tennis championship with a first round defeat. The 'Indian Express' pair failed to hold their nerve in the match tie-break and went down to the Canadian duo of Daniel Nestor and Frederic Niemeyer 4-6, 6-3, 10-12 in one hour and 25 minutes.
Bhupathi and Max Mirnyi of Belarus have been seeded second, while Paes and his Czech partner David Rikl are the fifth seeds.
Bopanna also spoke about the challenging conditions at the Australian Open and having to push his boundaries to get them wins.
The Indo-Belarusian pair was given a scare by Anthony Dupuis of France and Lee Hung-taik of South Korea at the US Open.
Veteran Indian tennis player Mahesh Bhupathi feels the suspension of the Indian Olympic Association by the IOC is a 'culmination of dirty politics'.
The duo are pairing up since their respective partners Max Mirnyi and David Rikl have opted out of the Long Island event.
The top seeds will take on seventh seeds Wayne Arthurs and Paul Hanley of Australia.
India's challenge ended in the men's doubles at the Australian Open with the defeat of Mahesh Bhupathi and Daniel Nestor even as Sania Mirza and Bob Bryan progressed to the mixed doubles quarter-finals, in Melbourne, on Monday. Fifth seeded Bhupathi and Canadian partner Nestor were sent packing 3-6, 6-4, 3-6 by the unseeded Italian combo of Simone Bolelli and Fabio Fognini in the second round.
The Indo-Belarussian pair lost to Arnaud Clement and Sebastian Grosjean in the second round at the Miami Masters.
'I don't think you can fault us for not trying. We kept giving our best shot because we know how special a relationship it is for not just us but the country as well'
The top seeds beat Gaston Etlis and Martin Rodriques of Argentina in straight sets.
Mahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles entered the final of the Monte Carlo Masters with a 6-0, 7-5 win over Jeff Coetzee and Wesley Moodie.
The third seeded Indo-Russian pair lost to the US team of Mike Bryan and Lisa Raymond, in the mixed doubles final of the French Open.
Unseeded Bopanna and Rajeev Ram hit seven aces and converted one of seven break-point opportunities to beat Victor Hanescu and Lukas Rosol 4-6, 7-5, 10-4 in 79 minutes. Later in the day, Bhupathi and Llodra also came from behind to oust the fourth seeded pair of Mariusz Fyrstenberg and Marcin Matkowski, winning 4-6, 6-4, 10-8.
The top seeded pair of Mahesh Bhupathi and Canadian Daniel Nestor was ousted from the Chennai Open ATP Tennis tournament after suffering a defeat at the hands of the unseeded Russian-American pair of Raveen Klaasen and Nicholas Monroe in the doubles quarter-final in Chennai on Thursday.
Indian captain Leander Paes went down in a close contest against Satoshi Iwabuchi, while Mahesh Bhupathi surrendered tamely against Kei Nishikori as Japan closed the margin to 2-3 in the Asia Oceania Davis Cup round II tie in New Delhi on Sunday. Paes lost 4-6, 6-4, 4-6 to the left-handed Iwabuchi in a dramatic fifth rubber after Bhupathi had folded to a 5-7, 1-6 defeat against Japan's no.1 Nishikori.
Mahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles beat Leander Paes and Paul Hanley 6-2, 6-7(8), 10-6 in the quarter-final of the Miami Masters.
The two Indian tennis aces won the doubles titles at the Pilot Pen tournament with Mara Santangelo and Nenad Zimonjic respectively.
India's Mahesh Bhupathi and his partner Mark Knowles of Bahamas pocketed the $1,401,000 ATP Dubai Tennis title with a straight set victory over Czech pair of Martin Damm and Pavel Vizner on Saturday. In the final, the fourth seeded Indo-Bahamian pair prevailed over their third-seeded opponents 7-5, 7-6(7) in one hour 48 minutes.
The Indian tennis star exuded confidence of winning a medal in the 2008 Beijing Olympics partnering Mahesh Bhupathi.
Zeeshan Ali will take over as India's non-playing captain, exactly 60 years after his father Akhtar Ali had played a key role in the country's Davis Cup victory in Pakistan in 1964.
The World No. 2 doubles pair beat Australia's Wayne Arthurs and Paul Hanley for their first victory in the ATP Masters Cup.
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.
Striving hard to secure a place in the season-ending World Tour Finals, India's Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna have got a first round bye in the Paris Masters event along with their respective partners.
Sania Mirza has handled her off-court woes with great maturity and is on track for a spot in the world's top 20, Mahesh Bhupathi said.
He goes with Joshua Eagle into the Australian Open firmly believing he can become the first Indian to collect trophies from all four tennis majors.
Multiple Grand Slam winners Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi were on Friday named in India's men's squad for the Commonwealth Games.
The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed the petition of international Tennis star Mahesh Bhupathi challenging the Karnataka High Court verdict refusing his claim for Rs 28.5 lakh tax exemption, which he maintained was paid to his father in return for training him.
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