Thank you Esther for sharing this piece of interview via the media people at Tashkent Challenger. So here you go: An interview with Rohan Bopanna India’s top tennis player Rohan Bopanna who has been performing exceedingly well in the doubles scene on the ATP Tour , is all set to partner leading doubles specialist Max Mirnyi of Belarus at the ATP Tour event at St Petersburg next week. “I’m looking forward to play with Mirnyi, it’ll surely be a great experience for me to play with someone like... Read Full Story
India's Rohan Bopanna and Australia's Rameez Junaid bowed out of the doubles first round of 30,000 euros Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) challenger.
The third-seeded Bopanna-Junaid lost 7-5, 3-6, 13-11 to Austrian pair Martin Fischer and Philipp Oswald here Tuesday.
Fischer and Oswald now play Germans Dieter Kindlmann and Marcel Zimmermann.
Last updated on Nov 4 th , 2009 at 22:29 pm IST --IANS
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The Indian Davis Cup team believe they have the extra edge against Taiwan in the second round tie of the Asia/Oceania Zone Group I, starting tomorrow. Based on ranking, new poster boy Somdev Devvarman who will take on Chen Ti in the opening singles rubber could win the first point for India. Taiwan will heavily rely on Asia's no. 1 Rendy Lu Yen-Hsun. He missed Taiwan's first round tie against Kazakhstan , so his return has made the Taiwan team more confident. But let us not forget that Rohan... Read Full Story
New Delhi: Rohan Bopanna pulled of one of the biggest wins of his career when he, along with Jarrko Niemenin, upset top seeds and multiple Grand Slam winners Bob and Mike Bryan in the men’s doubles quarterfinals of the USD 600,000 SAP Open in California, United States. The unseeded Indo-Finnish pair shocked the Australian Open winners 6-4, 4-6, 10-5 to reach the semi finals of the hard court event.
Bopanna and Niemenin saved 12 breakpoints in the match and dropped their serve just once... Read Full Story
Indian players had mixed luck with Rohan Bopanna moving into the doubles semifinals and seventh-seeded Somdev Devvarman losing to Russian Alexandre Kudryavstev in the men' singles at the $125,000 ATP Tashkent Challenger tournament here Wednesday. Read Full Story
Seventh-seeded Indian Somdev Devvarman beat Spanish player Gillermo Olaso 6-3, 6-2 while compatriot Rohan Bopanna went down to Chinese Taipei's Lu Yen-Hsun 6-4, 6-2 in the $125,000 Tashkent challenger tennis opening round. Read Full Story
Johannesburg, Sep 18 (IANS) Rohan Bopanna and Somdev Devvarman put in sight of the Davis Cup World Group Finals winning the two opening singles in the play-off tie against South Africa at the Ellis Park Indoor Arena here Friday. Bopanna, who had failed to win even a single match during India’s 3-2 win against Chinese [...]...
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Rohan Bopanna gave India a 2-0 lead against South Africa after beating their No.1 player Rik De Voest 2-6, 6-4, 6-2, 6-4 in the second singles rubber on day one of the Davis Cup World Group tennis play-off tie at the Ellis Park Indoor Arena here Friday. Read Full Story
Somdev Devvarman has said Rohan Bopanna's sensational victory over South Africa No.1 Rik De Voest on the opening day inspired him to stage a fight back and win the crucial reverse singles to take India to the elite World Group of Davis Cup tennis for the first time in 11 years. Read Full Story
Somdev Devvarman, in a sensational comeback, outlasted South Africa's Rik De Voest, 4-6, 6-7(3), 7-6(5), 6-2, 6-4 in a near five-hour slugfest in the first reverse singles Sunday to seal India's place in the elite World Group for the first time in 11 years. Read Full Story
