Seasoned pros Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi showed their class and chemistry by recording a clinical win over Igor Kunitsyn and Teimuraz Gabashvili to keep India's chances alive in the Davis Cup World Group tie against Russia in Moscow on Saturday.

Returning to the elite World Group of Davis Cup after 11 years, an acid test awaits India when they take on formidable Russia in their first round tie in Moscow on Friday.

Top seeds Mahesh Bhupathi and Max Mirnyi made a shock first round exit from $1,100,000 Regions Morgan Keegan Championships after suffering a straight set defeat in Memphis.

Newly-crowned Australian Open mixed doubles champion Leander Paes on Monday rose a rung to seventh in the ATP doubles' ranking, displacing one-time partner Mahesh Bhupathi in the latest list.

India's most successful female tennis player Sania Mirza on Thursday revealed that she will hang up her racquet after getting married.

A men's doubles Grand Slam title has eluded Mahesh Bhupathi since 2002, and the Indian tennis star is hoping to end the seven-year drought next season when he rejoins forces with Max Mirnyi.

Mahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles' doubles' partnership ended on a disappointing note after the third seeded Indo-Bahamian pair was handed a straight-set defeat by Americans Bob and Mike Bryan in the semifinals of the ATP World Tour Finals in London.

Indian challenge in the ATP Paris Masters tennis tournament ended after Mahesh Bhupathi and Leander Paes, along with their respective partners, crashed out of the doubles event following unexpected second-round defeats in Paris.

Ace Indian doubles tennis star, Mahesh Bhupathi said on Friday that he will give off his best in the David Cup tie against South Africa starting in Johannesburg on Saturday.

Leander Paes won the battle of Indians as well as his 10th Grand Slam title after defeating old pal Mahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles in the US Open men's doubles final along with his partner Luaks Dlouhy on Sunday.

Serena Williams was booted out of the US Open after hurling threatening abuse at a lineswoman.

India's Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi are heading towards a possible final showdown in both mixed as well as men's doubles event of the US Open after winning their respective matches in New York.

Indian aces Mahesh Bhupathi and Leander Paes breezed into the quarterfinals of the mixed doubles event with their respective partners following straight set wins over their opponents in the US Open tennis tournament in New York.

Sania Mirza crashed out of the women's doubles event after losing a thriller but Mahesh Bhupathi ensured the smooth sailing of Indians in mixed doubles advancing to the second round of the US Open at the Flushing Meadows in New York.

Mahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles inched closer to their second successive ATP Masters title by reaching the semifinals of the Cincinnati Masters with a straight set win over Michael Llodra and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga here.

Bidding for their second consecutive Masters title, Mahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles moved to the quarterfinals of the Cincinnati Masters after edging past Feliciano Lopez and Fernando Verdasco in a tough three setter.

Mahesh Bhupathi and his Bahamian partner Mark Knowles continued their rampaging form to lift their fourth ATP title together, beating seventh seeds Max Mirnyi and Andy Ram in straight sets in the finals of $3 million Rogers Cup in Montreal.

Mahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles of Bahamas advanced to their 10th ATP World Tour doubles final, beating defending champions Daniel Nestor of Canada and Serbia's Nenad Zimonjic in a keenly-contested semi-final match of the $3 million Rogers Cup in Montreal.

Mahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles eased into the semifinals of ATP Montreal Masters after scoring a 6-3 6-4 win over the Polish pair of Mariusz Frystenberg and Marcin Matkowski on Saturday.

Third seeds Mahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles edged past Jeff Coetzee and Jurgen Melzer 7-6(2), 6-4 to book a quarter-final berth in the Rogers Cup, an ATP Masters 1000 tournament in Montreal.

Mahesh Bhupathi and his partner Mark Knowles, seeded third, crashed out of the ATP Legg Mason Classic event after losing a tough quarterfinal match to Martin Damm and Robert Lindstedt.

India's top three tennis players - Somdev Devvarman, Sania Mirza and Mahesh Bhupathi - saw their rankings slide in the latest ATP and WTA lists released on Monday.

Leander Paes emerged victorious in a contest involving three Indians as he and his partner Cara Black defeated Mahesh Bhupathi and Sania Mirza to advance to the mixed doubles quarter-finals of Wimbledon Championships in London.

A rare Mahesh Bhupathi-Leander Paes face-off is on the cards on Monday after the two, along with their respective partners, set up a third-round mixed doubles clash in the Wimbledon Championships.

Mahesh Bhupathi and Prakash Amritraj set up a pre-quarterfinal clash of the Wimbledon championships against each other after winning their men's doubles second round matches along with their respective partners in London on Friday.