Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi came up with another well-oiled performance against Japan to clinch the Davis Cup tie 3-0 and guide India into the World Group play-offs. Takao Suzuki, who in the company of Satoshi Iwabuchi, suffered a 7-6, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 loss at the hands of the ace Indian duo, said on Saturday that Paes-Bhupathi have it in them to rule the doubles scenario.
The Indian duo of Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna has set up a summit clash with Leander Paes and his Czech partner Radek Stepanek after both the pairs won their respective semi-final matches in the Shanghai Masters on Saturday.
Mahesh Bhupathi and Max Mirnyi booked a semi-final berth in the World Tour finals for the first time in their careers after beating Wesley Moodie and Dick Norman 6-4, 6-4 to grab the last available spot.
The pair had to concede a walk-over at the Barcelona Open as Miryni too ill.
Their exit gave the Bryan twins, Mike and Bob, the year-end world No. 1 ranking.
The triumph gave Sania her fourth gold medal at the Afro-Asian Games.
Rohan Bopanna and Florin Mergea breezed into the pre-quarter-finals of the men's doubles at the Australian Open, beating Lukas Dlouhy and Jiri Vesely, on Friday.
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The pair beat the Czech Republic duo of Frantisek Cermak/Leos Friedl in the semi-finals.
The top seeds lost to Chris Haggard and Yen-Hsun Lu in the first round of the China Open.
The seventh seeded Indian pair beat Galina Voskoboeva of Kazakhstan and Italy's Daniele Bracciali 6-4, 6-2 in the semi-finals on Wednesday. They will meet Poland's Klaudia Jans-Ignacik and Santiago Gonzalez of Mexico, who got the better of the fifth seeds, India's Leander Paes-Elena Vesnina of Russia 7-6 (7-2), 6-3 in the second semi-final.
The third seeded Indo-Czech pair lost in the second round to the unseeded Slovak-Ukrainian duo of Lukas Lacko and Sergiy Stakhovsky 3-6, 3-6, 7-5, 6-4, 5-7.
The duo had played at Wimbledon -- where they lost in the second round -- earlier this year.
Indian ace Mahesh Bhupathi and Max Mirnyi sailed into the second round of the men's doubles at Wimbledon, scoring a straight-set victory over the Argentine duo of Maximo Gonzalez and Sebastian Prieto in London on Thursday. The fourth-seeded Indo-Belarus pair won 7-5, 6-1, 7-5.
Indian ace Leander Paes and his Czech partner Lukas Dlouhy advanced to the doubles semi-finals while it was curtains for compatriots Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna in the Dubai Tennis Championships on Thursday.
Leander Paes had a productive day at the Australian Open, entering the men's doubles semi-finals with Radek Stepanek, and the mixed doubles quarter-finals with Elena Vesnina, in Melbourne, on Wednesday.
Americans Bob and Mike Bryan stood one match away from ending the season ranked on top of the world as they reached the doubles final at the ATP World Tour Finals with a 6-4 6-4 win over Mahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles. The second seeds will usurp Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonjic as world number ones if they beat Max Mirnyi and Andy Ram in the showpiece match on Sunday.
The Indo-Croatian pair lost to John Stephens and Wesley Moodie in the quarter-finals of the St Petersburg Open.
Leander Paes said he is playing the Mumbai Open out of "respect" to tournament promoter and his former partner Mahesh Bhupathi.
The Indian pair of Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi bowed out of the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals after losing to eighth-seeded Poles Mariusz Fyrstenberg and Marcin Matkowski via the super tie-break in the semi-finals in London on Saturday. Fyrstenberg and Matkowski needed an hour and 39 minutes to prevail over the fourth seeds and three-time former finalists 6-4, 4-6, 10-6 and reach their 31st tour-level doubles final.
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.
Tennis ace Leander Paes is still rankled by the selection furore prior to the 2012 London Olympics and holds former partner Mahesh Bhupathi responsible for making the Games a "real sad" outing for him.
Top seeded Indian pair of Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna on Saturday crashed out of the doubles event in the semifinals of the Aircel Chennai Open 2012 after losing to Israel's Andy Ram and Jonathan Erlic.
Indian Davis Cup faction revolting against the captaincy of Leander Paes have relented for the time-being, making themselves available for the tie against Japan, which will be held from April 11 in New Delhi.
Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhuapthi have been placed in Gold and Red groups respectively for the US $4,450,000 Tennis Masters Cup, in Shanghai. Paes and his Czech partner Lukas Dlouhy are seeded sixth in the Gold Group along with three other teams. Bhupathi and his Bahamian partner Mark Knowles are seeded third and find themselves with the top seeded pair of Mike and Bob Bryan.
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 Indian pair was drawn in a relatively easy bottom half in the men's doubles tennis at the Athens Games.
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.
Defending champions Leander Paes and Lukas Dlouhy have been seeded third for the men's doubles at the French Open. They open their campaign against Swede Johan Brunstrom and Jean-Julien Rojer of the Netherlands.
Bopanna was playing the US Open final for the second time in his career and this time as the oldest player at 43.
Bhupathi has also moved into the second round of the men's doubles events.
The inaugural International Premier Tennis League, which has borrowed its format from the lucrative Twenty20 Indian Premier League, suffered a blow when two of the world's most-famous female players snubbed the event.
India meet Japan in the Davis Cup Asia-Oceania Group I first round tie in Delhi, from February 7 to 9.
The men's doubles ace said he hopes to team with the Hyderabadi lass and win a cople of Grand Slams.
Veteran Indian tennis star Mahesh Bhupathi has exuded confidence that he will gel well with his new partner Rohan Bopanna on the ATP tour but was cautious in commenting on the possibility of competing in the London Olympics with the fellow Davis Cupper.
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."
The ace doubles pair beat Thomas Shimada and Takahiro Terachi in the doubles rubber of the Davis Cup Asia/Oceania Group I tie.
Reader Deepak Shetty sent us these pictures from Melbourne.
Reader Deepak Shetty sent us these pictures from Melbourne.
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