Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi quelled a late challenge from Tsung-Hua Yang and Chu-Huan Yi to carve out a hard fought 6-4, 7-6, 6-7(2), 6-2 win in the doubles rubber of the second round Davis Cup tie against Chinese Taipei to hand India a 2-1 advantage here on Friday. Paes-Bhupathi were cruising along comfortably after [...]
Mahesh Bhupathi and Sania Mirza registered their first Grand Slam title together, crushing Andy Ram and Natalie Dechy in straight sets in the mixed doubles final of the Australian Open here on Sunday. The Indian wild card pair proved too good for the Israeli-French duo, thrashing them 6-3, 6-1 in 55 minutes. The win also [...]
Sania Mirza and Mahesh Bhupathi overcame a sluggish start to sail into the Australian Open mixed doubles finals for second consecutive year as they beat Czechs Iveta Benesova and Lukas Dlouhy in straight sets on Friday. The Indians, who were runner-up at the Melbourne Park last year, trailed 1-3 in the opening set before storming [...]
Mahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles thrashed Lukasz Kubot and Oliver Marach 6-3, 6-1 to reach the final of the men’s doubles event of the Australian Open on Thursday. The third seed Indo-Bahamian pair proved too good for their unseeded Polish-Austrian opponents as it took them just 58 minutes to win the semi-final encounter. In the [...]
Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi advanced to the men’s doubles quarterfinals with their respective partners after facile wins in the third round of the Australian Open on Monday. While Bhupathi and his Bahamian partner Mark Knowles defeated Nicolas Lapentti and Tommy Robredo 6-3, 6-4, Paes and his Czech partner Lukas Dlouhy, seeded fourth, beat locals [...]
Sania Mirza and Mahesh Bhupathi stormed into the quarterfinals of the mixed doubles with a straight set victory while Yuki Bhambri had to sweat it out to register his place in the second round of the junior boys singles event at the Australian Open on Sunday. The unseeded Sania-Bhupathi pair thrashed Australian duo of Anastasia [...]
Notwithstanding the current fall in her WTA rankings, Sania Mirza will make a comeback and do well in women’s circuit next year, ace tennis player Mahesh Bhupati said on Sunday. “She has been injured unfortunately. When you are injured and cannot play, anybody’s rankings are going to fall. But the good sign is Sania is [...]
Indian tennis ace Mahesh Bhupathi on Saturday said he would put more time in training youngsters to produce talents for the future at the Apollo Tyres Mission 2018 challenge. Apollo tyres had created a corpus of Rs 100 crore for mission 2018 with the objective of developing the first Indian Singles Grand Slam champion by [...]
Mahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles failed to make it to the last four of the Tennis Masters Cup, going down to Pablo Cuevas and Luis Horna in a cliffhanger. The Uruguayan and Peruvian combine slammed six aces and saved all six break points they faced in their one hour and 52 minutes win over Bhupathi [...]
Mahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles put up a spirited fight but lost their second round robin match of the $4,45,000 Tennis Masters Cup to top seeds Mike and Bob Bryan on Tuesday. The third seeded Indo-Bahamian pair went down 5-7, 6-3, 4-10 to their American opponents in the Red Group clash. The fiercely contested first [...]
India’s Mahesh Bhupathi and his partner Mark Knowles of the Bahamas defeated South African duo Wesley Moodie and Jeff Coetzee 6-2, 6-3 in their first group league match of the season-ending Masters Cup on Sunday. The third-seeded Bhupathi and Knowles took 63 minutes to get past their fifth-seeded rivals in the Red Group. On Monday, [...]
Indian tennis stars Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhuapthi have been placed in Gold and Red groups respectively along with their partners for the prestigious season ending $4,450,000 Tennis Masters Cup, to be held in Shanghai. Paes and his Czech partner Lukas Dlouhy are seeded sixth in the Gold Group along with three other teams. Bhupathi [...]
Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi will play with their respective partners at the $450,000 Chennai Open 2009. The 14th edition of Chennai Open, India’s only ATP tennis tournament, will be held from Jan 5-11, at the SDAT Stadium here. While Bhupathi will team up with his long time Bahamas partner Mark Knowles, Paes will combine [...]
Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi crashed out of the euro 2,270,000 Paris Masters after suffering straight-set defeats along with their respective partners in the second round encounter. The third seed Indo-Czech pair, who got a first round bye, lost to their Brazilian opponents Marcelo Melo and Andre Spa 3-6, 2-6 in a little over one-hour [...]
Despite winning ATP Swiss Indoor tournament in Basel, Mahesh Bhupathi remains at the seventh position in the world doubles ranking, issued by the ATP on Monday. Bhupathi, who with his partner Mark Knowles of Bahamas won the tournament on Sunday, has 3295 points. Leander Paes also remained static at the eighth spot. Meanwhile, Sania Mirza [...]
India’s Mahesh Bhupathi and his Bahamas partner Mark Knowles outclassed Germans Christopher Kas and Philipp Kohlschreiber 6-3, 6-3 to win Swiss Indoors doubles title on Sunday. The title win for the Indo-Bahamian pair comes after their last week’s final appearance at Madrid Masters. Bhupathi and Knowles will split the €46,500 prize money, while Kas and [...]
Leander Paes and Lukas Dlouhy crashed out of the euro 891,000 ATP Indoor event but Mahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles advanced to the q uarter-finals with an easy win. The third seed Indo-Czech pair were stunned by unseeded Germans Christopher Kas and Philipp Kohlschreiber. Paes and Dlouhy went down 3-6, 0-6 to bow out of [...]
Indian ace Mahesh Bhupathi and his Bahamian partner Mark Knowles’s final appearance at last week’s Madrid Masters has booked the duo a berth in the season-ending prestigious Tennis Masters Cup to be held in Shanghai next month. Top seven teams in the ATP doubles race apart from Roland Garros winners Pablo Cuevas of Uruguay and [...]
Mahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles defeated erring Simon Aspelin and Julian Knowle 6-3 7-5 to storm into the semifinals of the $2,270,000 Madrid Masters. The fourth seeded Indo-Bahamian pair took one hour and 15 minutes to beat the sixth seeded Swede-Austrian duo in the quarterfinals of the hard court event. Bhupathi and Knowles converted one [...]
Indian ace Mahesh Bhupathi and his partner Mark Knowles moved into the quarterfinals of the Euro 2,270,000 Madrid Masters when their opponents handed them a walkover in the second round match. Bhupathi and Knowles of Bahamas were up against the Spanish pair of Rafael Nadal and Carlos Moya, who opted out of contest due to [...]