{"id":1821,"date":"2011-12-31T16:26:46","date_gmt":"2011-12-31T16:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=1821"},"modified":"2011-12-31T16:26:46","modified_gmt":"2011-12-31T16:26:46","slug":"bhupathi-bopanna-open-against-malisse-skupski","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=1821","title":{"rendered":"Bhupathi-Bopanna open against Malisse-Skupski"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Chennai: <\/strong>The doubles draw in the Aircel <a href=\"component\/search\/?searchword=chennai+open&amp;ordering=&amp;searchphrase=all\" title=\"http:\/\/www.indiansportsnews.com\/component\/search\/?searchword=chennai+open&amp;ordering=&amp;searchphrase=all\">Chennai Open <\/a>Tennis  Tournament 2012, to be held at the SDAT-Nungambakkam Tennis Stadium  from January 2-8, will feature a strong field that includes a string of  former champions and several high-profile names.<\/p>\n<p>While Indian tennis fans are in for a treat with three of the  country\u2019s top three doubles players in action, the draw also includes  Beijing Olympic doubles gold medallist Stanislas Wawrinka, the 2007  singles and doubles winner Xavier Malisse, and French Open doubles  runner-up Juan Sebastian Cabal.<\/p>\n<p>The Indian duo of <a href=\"component\/search\/?searchword=mahesh+bhupathi&amp;ordering=&amp;searchphrase=all\" title=\"http:\/\/www.indiansportsnews.com\/component\/search\/?searchword=mahesh+bhupathi&amp;ordering=&amp;searchphrase=all\">Mahesh Bhupathi <\/a>and Rohan Bopanna are the top seed and open their campaign against the pair of Malisse and Briton Ken Skupski.<\/p>\n<p>Leander  Paes along with his Serbian partner Janko Tipsarevic are seeded No. 3  and are drawn against the pair of Indian Somdev Devvarman and Treat  Conrad Huey of the Philippines in the first round.<\/p>\n<p>The American  pair of Rajeev Ram and Scott Lipsky is seeded No. 2 and will open  against Indian wild card duo of Sriram Balaji and Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan,  while the other Indian wild card pair of Mohit Mayur Jayaprakash and  Ramkumar Ramanathan is drawn against fourth seed Jonathan Erlich and  Andy Ram of Israel in the opening round.<\/p>\n<p>Paes and Bhupathi  reunited on the tour at the start of the 2011 season after a nine-year  gap and bagged their fifth Aircel Chennai Open doubles crown, but  announced this month that they were parting ways again.<\/p>\n<p>Bhupathi and Bopanna have got together for the 2012 season with their eyes firmly set on success at the London Olympics in July.<\/p>\n<p>Cabal,  who made it to the French Open doubles final on tour-level debut, is  pairing up with fellow Colombian Robert Farah, while Wawrinka, 2009  doubles finalist and 2011 singles winner, is pairing with German Andreas  Beck.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Chennai: <\/strong>The doubles draw in the Aircel <a href=\"component\/search\/?searchword=chennai+open&amp;ordering=&amp;searchphrase=all\" title=\"http:\/\/www.indiansportsnews.com\/component\/search\/?searchword=chennai+open&amp;ordering=&amp;searchphrase=all\">Chennai Open <\/a>Tennis  Tournament 2012, to be held at the SDAT-Nungambakkam Tennis Stadium  from January 2-8, will feature a strong field that includes a string of  former champions and several high-profile names.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-latest"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Bhupathi-Bopanna open against Malisse-Skupski - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; 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