Several Top Men’s Doubles Teams Are Planning Changes

Written by: Staff on 26th November 2011

Several Top Men’s Doubles Teams Are Planning Changes

epa02977934 Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshii (L) of Pakistan and Rohan Bopanna (R) of India in action during the ATP Stockholm Open tennis tournament double final match against Marcelo Melo and Bruno Soares, both of Brazil, in Stockholm, Sweden, 23 October 2011. Qureshii and Bopanna won the match. EPA/FREDRIK SANDBERG SWEDEN OUT |

Some of the world’s leading doubles teams have announced what amounts to a game of musical chairs with the most prominent changes involving the Indian trio of Mahesh Bhupathi, Leander Paes and Rohan Bopanna.

Despite reaching the semi-finals of the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals, Bhupathi and Paes have announced their year-long reconciliation will come to an end once they leave London’s 02 Arena.

And Bhupathi will then team up with Bopanna, so ending the high profile Indo-Pak Express partnership with Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi. According to Indian sources, the upcoming Olympic Games has figured prominently in the thinking of pairing up Bhupathi and Bopanna.

Meanwhile 39 year-old Paes is expected to partner Poland’s Lucasz Kubot next season while Qureshi has announced he will be linking up with Jean-Julien Rojer of the Netherlands Antilles, who split with American Eric Butorac.

Now Butorac, ranked 20^th in the ATP doubles listings and therefore a distinct Olympic candidate, has opted to begin 2012 alongside Brazil’s Bruno Soras.

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Topics: Leander Paes, Mahesh Bhupathi, Rohan Bopanna