India's Mahesh Bhupathi and his Bahamian partner Mark Knowles failed to make it to the last four of the Tennis Masters Cup, going down 7-6(3), 6-7(4),5-10 to Uruguay's Pablo Cuevas and Peru's Luis Horna in a cliffhanger in Shanghai on Thursday.
Barring doubles pro Mahesh Bhupathi, no other Indian managed to gain places in the tennis rankings issued on Monday with veteran Leander Paes dropping one spot and Sania Mirza sliding two rungs in the ATP doubles and WTA singles chart, respectively.
India's Mahesh Bhupathi and his Bahamas partner Mark Knowles outclassed Germans Christopher Kas and Philipp Kohlschreiber 6-3, 6-3 to win Davidoff Swiss Indoors champion doubles title in Basel on Sunday.- Indian Davis Cupper Mahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles eased past Argentine pair of Jose Acasuso and Agustin Calleri in straight sets to enter the finals of the euro 891,000 ATP Swiss Indoor tournament in Basel.
- Indian Davis Cupper Mahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles made a brilliant comeback to tame Jarkko Nieminen and Jordan Kerr to advance to the semifinals of the euro 891,000 ATP Swiss Indoor tournament in Basel.
- Leander Paes and Lukas Dlouhy crashed out of the euro 891,000 ATP Indoor event but Mahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles advanced to the quarter-finals with an easy win.
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 in November.
Fourth seeds Mahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles' title hopes were dashed by seventh-seeded Poles Marcin Matkowski and Mariusz Fyrstenberg and the Indo-Bahamian duo ended up being runners-up in the Madrid ATP Masters.- 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.
- India's Mahesh Bhupathi and his Bahamian partner Mark Knowles entered the quarterfinal of the Madrid Masters tennis tournament after local favourites Rafael Nadal and Carlos Moya withdrew from their second round match.
Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi moved to the second round of the euro 2,270,000 Madrid Masters with their respective partners after getting a bye in the first round of the doubles event.
Saina Mirza jumped one place in the WTA singles ranking, while ace doubles player Mahesh Bhupathi dropped a rung in the ATP doubles ranking issued on Monday.
Out of action Sania Mirza on Sunday slipped one more rung to be 92nd in the latest WTA singles rankings chart though she maintained the 44th place in the doubles.- 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 in the doubles rubber in Bucharest on Saturday.
- t will be a tough test for the four-member Indian team on the red clay with Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi once again holding the key in doubles rubber.
Eight Grand Slam titles - doubles and mixed doubles combined - adorn his cupboard but when Leander Paes looks back, he cannot help but wonder what if he had paid more attention to his singles career.- Leander Paes continued his winning run to advance to the mixed doubles' semifinals but it was curtains for Mahesh Bhupathi at the US Open.
India's Mahesh Bhupathi's run 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 in the second round in New York.- Indian Davis Cuppers 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, though in contrasting manner.
- Mahesh Bhupathi's quest for a second successive ATP Pilot Pen doubles title ended in dejection, as the Indian veteran and his Bahamian partner Mark Knowles went down in straight sets against Brazilians Marcelo Melo and Andre Sa in New Haven.
- Mahesh Bhupathi remained well on course to his second successive Pilot Pen doubles title after the Indian ace and his Bahamian partner Mark Knowles eased into the semifinal with a straight-sets victory.
Months after being faced with a players' revolt spearheaded by his estranged partner Mahesh Bhupathi, 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.
Indian pair of Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi crashed out of men's tennis doubles event losing their quarterfinal match to Swiss duo of Roger Federer and Stanislas Wawrinka in the Beijing Olympics on Friday.- Rain played spoilsport to drop early curtains on the men's doubles quarterfinals match with the Indian pair of Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi trailing 1-4 to the Swiss duo of Roger Federer and Stanislas Wawrinka in the Beijing Olympics on Thursday.
- Their impeccable on-court camaraderie betrayed no signs of a stormy past as Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi inched closer to their first joint Olympic medal by reaching the quarterfinals of the men's doubles event on Wednesday.
