BCCI president Sourav Ganguly on Thursday said he is also trying to bring Sachin Tendulkar as part of the Indian team which took on Bangladesh for the first time in 2000.
Indian tennis star Leander Paes is set to return to the side's Davis Cup squad after one year.
Federer on Monday announced that he will be participating in next year's Tokyo Olympics, thus putting an end to speculation about his retirement.
Indian cricketer MS Dhoni and tennis star Leander Paes were seen playing football during a charity event in Mumbai.
The League, affiliated with the All India Tennis Association (AITA), would be conducted under the auspices of the Maharashtra State Lawn Tennis Association
The Indian tennis veteran has set his eyes on the gold medal at Tokyo 2020 Olympics. He is currently participating in the French Open.
Talking about Indian tennis, which has not been able to produce world-class singles players in the last three decades, Becker said the trio (all doubles specialists) need to unite to take the game forward in their country.
Asked if India would be at a disadvantageous position minus Leander Paes on familiar surface at the South Club, Mahesh Bhupathi was dismissive in his reply.
The unseeded pair of Paes and Stosur won the first set 6-4 against Anna-Lena Groenefeld and Robert Farah but conceded the second set with the same scoreline.
The 15th seeded Indian team of Bopanna and Sharan, who began their partnership with a bang in Pune, lost 1-6, 6-4, 5-7 to the unseeded Spanish pair of Carreno Busta and Garcia-Lopez.
That the vacuum is real can be gauged from the fact that a 45-year-old Leander Paes is still India's biggest player, winning titles even this year, dropping no hints of retirement.
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan along with Tennis star Leander Paes inaugurate India's first Tennis Premiere League
Paes, who is ranked 69, added 110 ranking points to his kitty and shared a prize purse of USD 7750 with his partner.
Leander Paes is one win away from winning his second title of the season on the Challenger circuit, reaching the final of the Santo Domingo Open.
The reigning Asian Games champion pair of Rohan Bopanna and Divij Sharan will be playing the doubles.
Paes was already miffed at his exclusion from TOP Scheme but had made himself available for the Asian Games, where he has won eight medals, including five gold.
There is still uncertainty over whom the 18-time Grand Slam champion will partner in the doubles, with Rohan Bopanna and Divij Sharan expected to play together.
Ramkumar Ramanathan had said he would love to win a medal with Leander Paes at the Asian Games, beginning August 18 in Jakarta and Palembang.
Ramkumar, who ended a runner-up at the Newport event last week, lost 4-6, 4-6 to American world number five Taylor Fritz.
The world number 161 has made his first ever entry into the last four of any ATP tour.
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