Paes-Bhupathi out of Shanghai Masters
October 15th, 2011 - 10:56 pm ICT by IANSShanghai, Oct 15 (IANS) India’s Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi went down 1-6, 4-6 in the Shanghai Rolex Masters tennis men’s doubles semi-finals to Max Mirnyi of Belarus and Daniel Nestor of Canada here Saturday.
Paes and Bhupathi, however, have qualified for the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals after their quarterfinal victory over Thomaz Bellucci and Ivan Dodig.
It took second-seeded Mirnyi and Nestor close to an hour to get the better of the fourth-seeded “Indian Express”.
Bhupathi and Paes will join Bob Bryan-Mike Bryan, Michael Llodra- Nenad Zimonjic, Mirnyi-Nestor, and Jurgen Melzer-Philipp Petzschner at the season’s finale to be held at The O2 in London from Nov 20-27. Three spots remain to be claimed.
It will be the Indian pair’s sixth team appearance at the year-end championships and their first since 2002 after reforming their full-time partnership this season.
They reached the final on their debut in 1997 and again in 1999.
- Paes-Bhupathi and Bopanna-Qureshi in quarterfinals - Aug 19, 2011
- Bhupathi-Bopanna reach semis at Miami - Mar 28, 2012
- Australian Open: Paes-Bhupathi storm into semifinals - Jan 26, 2011
- Paes-Bhupathi beat Bryan twins, enter semis at Tour finals - Nov 26, 2011
- Bopanna, Qureshi enter Paris semi-finals - Nov 12, 2011
- Paes-Stepanek beat Marrero-Verdasco, meet Bryan brothers in semis - Mar 29, 2012
- Bhupathi-Paes through to Australian Open semi-finals - Jan 26, 2011
- Sweet victory: Leander Paes, Mahesh Bhupathi clinch Cincinnati title (Lead) - Aug 22, 2011
- Bhupathi-Mirnyi in second round of Paris Masters - Nov 11, 2010
- Bhupathi-Bopanna, Paes-Stepanek advance to Miami quarters - Mar 27, 2012
- Australian Open: Paes-Bhupathi in men's doubles semis (Lead) - Jan 26, 2011
- Paes-Bhupathi in the Sony Ericsson Open doubles final - Apr 01, 2011
- Paes-Bhupathi in semis; Bopanna-Qureshi ousted in Miami - Mar 31, 2011
- Bhupathi-Bopanna knock out top seeds to make semis - May 19, 2012
- Paes-Bhupathi advance to semis, Bopanna-Qureshi out - Aug 20, 2011
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