Top seeded Indo-Czech pair of Leander Paes and Lukas Dlouhy won the Thailand Open doubles title beating unseeded American duo of Scott Lipsky and David Martin 6-4, 7-6 on Sunday.
Earlier, Leander Paes and Lukas Dlouhy stormed into the summit clash of the Thailand Open after inflicting a straight-set defeat on Fabrice Santoro and Jo-Wilfred Tsonga […]
Romania retained their place in the Davis Cup World Group after forging to an unassailable 3-1 lead in the play-off with India here on Sunday.
With a 2-1 overnight advantage victory was assured when Romania’s Victor Hanescu defeated Prakash Amritraj, 6-2, 6-3, 6-1.
“Disappointed? Yes but we’ll try again next year,” said Amritraj, a loser Friday against […]
Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi relied on their experience to keep India afloat in the Davis Cup World Group play-off against Romania as the duo quelled the challenge of Horia Tecau and Adrian Cruciat 6-4 7-6 (0) 6-4 in the doubles rubber on Saturday.
The ace Indian pair had to toil hard to defeat the Romanian […]
India’s chances of making it to the Davis Cup World Group received a jolt on Friday when their biggest singles hope, Somdev Devvarman, went down 3-6, 1-6, 0-6 to Romania’s Victor Hanescu in the second singles of the play-off at the Bucuresti Stadium in Bucharest.
Earlier, Prakash Amritraj lost the first singles 5-7, 7-5, 2-6, 2-6 […]
India will challenge a formidable Romania for a place in the Davis Cup World Group with in-form teenager Somdev Devvarman as their trump card in the crucial World Group play-off tie starting on Friday.
It will be a tough test for the four-member Indian team on the red clay with Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi once […]
Inspite of the success in the doubles format of the game, Leander Paes always takes time to wonder what would have happened had he paid more attention to his singles games.
At one time, Leander was ranked 73 and had won an ATP title, besides Bronze in the Atlanta Olympic Games in singles when he decided […]
American twins Bob and Mike Bryan won the US Open men’s doubles crown for the second time when they beat Indian-Czech duo Leander Paes and Lukas Dlouhy 7-6, 7-6 in the final, thus denying Paes to complete a US Open Doubles double.
Paes and Dlouhy had several chances to take the match into a third set […]
India’s Leander Paes and Zimbabwe’s Cara Black won the US Open mixed doubles title on Thursday, defeating Britain’s Jamie Murray and American Liezel Huber 7-6 (8/6), 6-4 in the final.
The victory means that Paes has now completed a career mixed doubles Grand Slam as he also won the French Open and Wimbledon alongside American Lisa […]
India tennis icon Leander Paes continued his dazzling US Open doubles run on Tuesday, posting two victories in one day to remain in the hunt for a pair of titles, the mixed doubles and the men’s doubles.
The 35-year-old veteran teamed with Czech Lukas Dlouhy to reach the men’s doubles semi-finals with a 6-3, 6-7 (2/7), […]
Leander Paes continued his winning run to advance to the mixed doubles’ semi-finals but it was curtains for Mahesh Bhupathi at the US Open.
Paes, already through to the men’s doubles quarter-finals with partner Czech Lukas Dlouhy, teamed up with Zimbabwean Cara Black in the mixed doubles competition.
The fifth-seeded duo defeated the Czech pair of Martin […]
Mahesh Bhupathi crashed out of the US Open with a stunning loss in the men’s doubles third round.
The Indian and his Bahamian partner Mark Knowles, seeded fourth, squandered a set’s advantage to go down 6-2 4-6 4-6 to unseeded Argentines Maximo Gonzalez and Juan Monaco in the third round of the season’s last Grand […]
India’s Mahesh Bhupathi’s lost out in the US Open mixed doubles came to an end when he and Australian Samantha Stosur went down to Swede Robert Lindstedt and Australian Rennae Stubbs 6-2, 3-6, 10-12 in the opening round.
Bhupathi, however, is still in contention in the doubles event where he and Bahamian Mark Knowles advanced to […]
Indian tennis greats Mahesh Bhupathi and Leander Paes advanced to the pre-quarterfinals of men’s doubles event of the US Open after winning their respective second round matches with their respective partners.
The fourth seeded Bhupathi-Knowles pair dominated their 6-3, 6-3 win over Swiss Yves Allegro and Horia Tecau of Romania.
However, the seventh seeded Leander Paes and […]
Ace Indian pro Mahesh Bhupathi and his partner Mark Knowles scored a comfortable straight sets win to advance to the second round of the US Open. Meanwhile Rohan Bopanna and Pakistani team-mate Aisam-ul-Haq-Qureshi crashed out of the men’s doubles event.
Bhupathi and Knowles defeated the Swedish pair of Johan Brunstrom and Thomas Johansson 6-3, 6-4 in […]
The second seeded Indo-Bahamian pair of Mahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles have been convincingly beaten in the finals of the Pilot Pen men’s doubles tournament by Brazillians Marcelo Melo and Andre Sa, by a score of 5-7, 2-6.
The fourth seeded Brazilians, who did not lose even a single set throughout the four matches of the […]
Second seeds Mahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles notched up a win over Italians Simone Bolelli and Andreas Sippi in three sets to advance to the finals of Pilot Pen Tennis Tournament.
The Indo-Bahamian pair beat Bolleli and Sippi 6-3, 5-7, 10-7 to set up a clash with fourth seeds Brazillians Marcelo Melo and Andre Sa. In […]
Mahesh Bhupathi and his Bahamian partner Mark Knowles eased into the semi-final with a straight-set victory in the Pilot Pen tennis tournament.
Bhupathi, who won the doubles title here with Ninad Zimonjic last year, and Knowles beat Americans Eric Butorac and Scott Lipsky 6-4, 6-4 to enter the semis of the hard-court event.
The second-seeded Indo-Bahamian pair […]
Sania Mirza today pulled out of the US Open, as she is yet to recover from a nagging wrist injury. The Hyederabadi player has been advised a three-week rest by her doctor while the fourth and last Grand Slam of the year kicks off from Monday.
“Sania Mirza has been advised complete rest for an initial […]
India’s leading doubles player Mahesh Bhupathi and his Bahamian partner Mark Knowles cruised into the second round of $708,000 Pilot Pen tennis tournament with a straight-set win in the opening round here.
The second seeded Indo-Bahamian beat the French duo of Marc Gicquel and Nicolas Mahut 6-2, 6-3 in one hour and 14 minutes on Tuesday.
They […]
Leander Paes on Tuesday stepped down as India’s Davis Cup captain exactly a month ahead of the country’s crucial World Group playoff tie against Romania. This comes as a result of the player revolt that was led by Mahesh Bhupathi during India’s last Davis cup tie.
The AITA has appointed SP Misra, a former Davis Cup […]