Internet burst into laughter with Sania Mirza's hilarious comment on Sagarika-Zaheer honeymoon pictures.
Top players, including Ramkumar Ramanathan, Saketh Myneni, S Balaji, Vishnu Vardhan, have confirmed participation as well.
Indian women's cricket team captain Mithali made a pitch for upgrading sports infrastructure at schools so that more and more girl students can get a chance to play.
Sania, the country's finest woman doubles player, who began the year with the number one ranking, closed it at number 9.
Shoaib Malik was adjudged the Man of the Series after Pakistan clean swept Sri Lanka in the three-match T20I series.
After comfortably winning the first set, the Indo-Chinese duo slumped to a shocking 6-2, 1-6, 5-10 defeat at the hands of Swiss star Martina Hingis and Chan Yung-Jan of China.
The third-seeded Indo-Chinese pair of Sania and Peng came from a set down to beat fifth-seeded Czech pair of Barbora Strycova and Katerina Siniakov 4-6 6-2 10-7 in the quarterfinals.
Sania-Peng duo defeated the Belgian-Dutch pair of Elise Mertens and Demi Schuurs 7-5, 6-2 to enter the quarterfinals.
The tennis star recalled the time when she was thrown out of the Falaknuma Palace in Hyderabad.
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.
The Indo-Chinese pair of Sania Mirza and Shuai Peng lost in straight sets 4-6. 4-6 against second seed duo of Martina Hingis-Chan Yuan-Jan in the women’s doubles semifinals of US Open 2017.
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.
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.
The likes of Thombare, Kaur and Ankita Bhambri are ranked around 200-250 in the world and that is no mean achievement, the 30-year-old said.
The 22-year-old from Chennai is now India's best-ranked player in the singles.
Sania Mirza and her Croatian partner Ivan Dodig were defeated by Heather Watson and Henri Kontinen in round 3.
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