Bopanna and Raja lost 5-7 5-7 7-5 3-6 to the seasoned pair of Daniel Nestor and Vasek Pospisil in two hours and 52 minutes to leave India with the difficult task of winning both the reverse singles to qualify for the elite 16-nation World Group.
AITA contends that if top players come and play the nationals it will become easier for the federation to get financial assistance from the government for the players.
Rohan Bopanna and his Canadian partner Gabriela Dabrowski lost 6-4, 3-6, 8-10 to New Zealand-Chinese pair of Hao-Ching Chan and Michael Venus.
Paes and Raja, who joined forces recently, were knocked out of the men's doubles following a close 4-6 6-7(7) defeat.
Veteran Paes and Raja thrashed Serbia's Janko Tipsarevic and Viktor Troicki 6-1, 6-3 at the Flushing Meadows.
Rohan Bopanna and his Croatian partner Ivan Dodig lost 1-6, 7-6, 7-10 to second seeds Lukasz Kubot of Poland and Marcelo Melo in an enthralling three-setter quarterfinal.
Rohan Bopanna and Ivan Dodig rallied to humble the pair of Juan Sebastian Cabal and Fabio Fognini 5-7, 7-5, 10-8 in a second round match.
AITA official said that the only reason Bopanna has not been nominated is because he has not been able to reach the criteria in 2016 to be eligible for the Arjuna Award.
Rohan Bopanna-Gabriela Dabrowski went down 7-6, 4-6, 5-7 to the unseeded duo of Henri Kontinen of Finland and Heather Watson of Britain in a quarter-final clash.
Sania Mirza and her Croatian partner Ivan Dodig were defeated by Heather Watson and Henri Kontinen in round 3.
Indian star Rohan Bopanna and his Canadian partner Gabriela Dabrowski on Thursday won a tough three-set battle to clinch the mixed doubles title at the French Open tennis tournament.
37-year old Rohan Bopanna feels he has become more mature as a player and is playing the best tennis of his career right now. Bopanna won the mixed doubles French Open title with his Canadian partner Gabriela Dabrowski
The seventh seeded Indo-Canadian pair overcame the unseeded pair of Anna-Lena Groenefeld of Germany and Robert Farah of Colombia 2-6, 6-2, 12-10 on Philippe-Chatrier Court.
India's Rohan Bopanna earned himself an opportunity to become only the fourth Indian to win a Grand Slam trophy by reaching the French Open mixed doubles final with partner Gabriela Dabrowski, here today
Bopanna and Cuevas were off to a poor start, conceding the first set before staging a strong comeback to win the next two sets.
Indian star Rohan Bopanna and his Uruguayan partner Pablo Cuevas defeated the Spanish team of Feliciano Lopez and Marc Lopez in a tough three-set battle to win the men's doubles title at the Monte Carlo Masters tennis tournament here on Sunday.
The Indians scripted an easy 6-2, 6-4, 6-1 win in around 80 minutes.
India’s non-playing captain Mahesh Bhupathi on Tuesday selected four singles players in the squad for the Davis Cup tie against Uzbekistan, dropping veteran Leander Paes and his doubles partner Rohan Bopanna to the reserves.
Rohan Bopanna and his Polish partner Marcin Matkowski lost the final battle in the men's doubles of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships on Saturday.
Sania Mirza and her mixed doubles partner Ivan Dodig on Tuesday beat Alexander Peya and Zheng Saisai 2-6, 6-3, 10-6 here, setting the stage for quarter-finals battle against the pair of Rohan Bopanna and Canada's Gabriela Dabrowski.
Top News
Latest News
