Mahesh Bhupathi

 ( 1974 Births ) 

Mahesh Shrinivas Bhupathi (born 7 June 1974) is an Indian former doubles world No. 1 tennis player. In 1997, he became the first Indian to win a major tournament (with Rika Hiraki). With his win at the 2006 Australian Open mixed doubles, he joined the elite group of eight tennis players who have achieved a career Grand Slam in mixed doubles. He is also the founder of International Premier Tennis League. In December 2016, Bhupathi was appointed as India's next non-playing Davis Cup captain and took over the reins from Anand Amritraj in February 2017.

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Career

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1995–2006 Mahesh Bhupathi is considered one of the top doubles players of the 1990s and 2000s. In 1999, Bhupathi won three doubles titles with Leander Paes, including the French Open and Wimbledon. He and Paes became the first doubles team to reach the finals of all four Grand Slams, the first time such a feat has been achieved in the open era and the first time since 1952. On 26 April of that year, they became the world no. 1 doubles team. Bhupathi also won the US Open mixed doubles with Ai Sugiyama of Japan.

In 2006, Bhupathi teamed with Martina Hingis in the Australian Open mixed doubles competition. Entering the tournament unseeded and as wildcards, Source the first-time pair defeated four seeded opponents along the way, while only dropping a single set throughout. Bhupathi and Hingis defeated the sixth-seeded team of Daniel Nestor and Elena Likhovtseva in straight sets, 6–3, 6–3, to capture the championship. It was the sixth mixed doubles Grand Slam for Bhupathi, and the first one for Hingis. By winning the Australian Open, Bhupathi completed a career Grand Slam in mixed doubles.

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2007–2008 In 2007, Bhupathi and Radek Štěpánek reached the 2007 Australian Open men's doubles event's quarterfinals. Bhupathi teamed with Štěpánek at the 2007 French Open to make the doubles semifinals, defeating two-year defending champions Jonas Björkman and Max Mirnyi in the quarterfinals. The team lost to the eventual champions Mark Knowles and Daniel Nestor. After Wimbledon, Bhupathi teamed with Pavel Vízner to win the 2007 Canada Masters, defeating the top-ranked doubles team Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan en route. After this victory, he won a tournament in New Haven with Nenad Zimonjić. At the 2007 US Open, he and Zimonjić paired in doubles. After the US Open, the team that beat Bhupathi and Štěpánek in the French Open semifinals, Knowles and Nestor, split up. Bhupathi became Knowles' partner, Team profile while Zimonjić became Nestor's, but back surgery meant he was out until the end of the year.

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2009–2012 In 2009, Bhupathi and compatriot Sania Mirza won the mixed doubles title at the Australian Open, beating Nathalie Dechy and Andy Ram, 6–3, 6–1, in the final. The Indian pair thus made up for the disappointment of the previous year's final when they were beaten by Sun Tiantian and Nenad Zimonjić. With this win, Bhupathi's count in mixed doubles Grand Slam titles increased to seven.

Bhupathi broke up his partnership with Knowles and began playing once again with Max Mirnyi, with whom he played to win the 2002 US Open. In 2011, Bhupathi reunited with former playing partner Leander Paes for the 2011 Australian Open. The team reached the final, but lost 3–6, 4–6 to the Bryan brothers. On 7 June 2012, Bhupathi and Sania Mirza won the French Open mixed doubles. On 4 November 2012, Bhupathi and partner Rohan Bopanna won the Paris Masters cup. In spite of suffering a setback with their loss against Jonathan Marray and Frederik Nielsen in the ATP Tour Finals opener, the Indian duo reached the final round of the ATP Tour Finals, but suffered a defeat at the hands of Marcel Granollers and Marc López.

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2013 Bhupathi and Bopanna played with different partners for the first three months of 2013, Bhupathi winning the tournament in Dubai in March with Michaël Llodra, but rejoined starting with the Monte-Carlo Masters.

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Playing style Mahesh Bhupathi is known for his strong serve. According to Rafael Nadal, his strong backhand makes him the best for an Ad Court player. Roger Federer acclaims him as one of the best doubles players of all time. He often discusses strategies between the serves with his partner during the match and also communicates using finger-at-the-back signals.

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Year-end finals Bhupathi appeared with Paes in six season finales. In 2011, they appeared, for the first time since 2002, after securing qualification in mid-October. Bhupathi played at the year-end championships with Paes from 1997 to 2000 and in 2002, reaching three finals. In 1997, they lost the final to Rick Leach and Jonathan Stark. They lost the 1999 final to Sébastien Lareau and Alex O’Brien. In 2000, they lost the final to Donald Johnson and Pieter Norval. Bhupathi also qualified with Max Mirnyi in 2003, 2004, and 2010, when they finished runners-up to Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonjić. He appeared at the finals with Mark Knowles in 2008 and 2009. In 2012, he and Rohan Bopanna made it to the final, where they lost to Marcel Granollers and Marc López.

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Significant finals

Loss	1999	Australian Open	Hard	Leander Paes	Jonas Björkman Pat Rafter	3–6, 6–4, 4–6, 7–6(12–10), 4–6
Win	1999	French Open	Clay	Leander Paes	Goran Ivanišević Jeff Tarango	6–2, 7–5
Win	1999	Wimbledon	Grass	Leander Paes	Paul Haarhuis Jared Palmer	6–7(10–12), 6–3, 6–4, 7–6(7–4)
Loss	1999	US Open	Hard	Leander Paes	Alex O'Brien Sébastien Lareau	6–7(7–9), 4–6
Win	2001	French Open (2)	Clay	Leander Paes	Petr Pála Pavel Vízner	7–6(7–5), 6–3
Win	2002	US Open	Hard	Max Mirnyi	Jiří Novák Radek Štěpánek	6–3, 3–6, 6–4
Loss	2003	Wimbledon	Grass	Max Mirnyi	Jonas Björkman Todd Woodbridge	6–3, 3–6, 6–7(4–7), 3–6
Loss	2009	Australian Open	Hard	Mark Knowles	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	6–2, 5–7, 0–6
Loss	2009	US Open	Hard	Mark Knowles	Lukáš Dlouhý Leander Paes	6–3, 3–6, 2–6
Loss	2011	Australian Open	Hard	Leander Paes	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	3–6, 4–6

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Mixed doubles: 12 (8 titles, 4 runner-ups) By winning the 2006 Australian Open title, Bhupathi completed the mixed doubles Career Grand Slam. He became the eighth male player in history to achieve this.

Win	1997	French Open	Clay	Rika Hiraki	Lisa Raymond Patrick Galbraith	6–4, 6–1
Loss	1998	Wimbledon	Grass	Mirjana Lučić	Serena Williams Max Mirnyi	4–6, 4–6
Win	1999	US Open	Hard	Ai Sugiyama	Kimberly Po Donald Johnson	6–4, 6–4
Win	2002	Wimbledon	Grass	Elena Likhovtseva	Daniela Hantuchová Kevin Ullyett	6–2, 1–6, 6–1
Loss	2003	French Open	Clay	Elena Likhovtseva	Lisa Raymond Mike Bryan	3–6, 4–6
Win	2005	Wimbledon (2)	Grass	Mary Pierce	Tatiana Perebiynis Paul Hanley	6–4, 6–2
Win	2005	US Open (2)	Hard	Daniela Hantuchová	Katarina Srebotnik Nenad Zimonjić	6–4, 6–2
Win	2006	Australian Open	Hard	Martina Hingis	Elena Likhovtseva Daniel Nestor	6–3, 6–3
Loss	2008	Australian Open	Hard	Sania Mirza	Sun Tiantian Nenad Zimonjić	6–7(4–7), 4–6
Win	2009	Australian Open (2)	Hard	Sania Mirza	Nathalie Dechy Andy Ram	6–3, 6–1
Loss	2011	Wimbledon	Grass	Elena Vesnina	Iveta Benešová Jürgen Melzer	3–6, 2–6
Win	2012	French Open (2)	Clay	Sania Mirza	Klaudia Jans-Ignacik Santiago González	7–6(7–3), 6–1

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Olympic medal matches

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Doubles: 1 (1 fourth place)

2004	Summer Olympics, Athens	Hard	Leander Paes	Mario Ančić Ivan Ljubičić	6–7(5–7), 6–4, 14–16

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ATP career finals

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Doubles: 96 (52–44)

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Grand Slam (4–6)

ATP World Tour Finals (0–5)

ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (16–14)

ATP World Tour 500 Series (8–7)

ATP World Tour 250 Series (24–12)

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Hard (32–26)

Clay (13–4)

Grass (2–6)

Carpet (5–7)

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Win	1–0		Maharashtra Open, India	Hard	Leander Paes	Oleg Ogorodov Eyal Ran	7–6, 7–5
Win	2–0		Prague, Czech Republic	Clay	Leander Paes	Petr Luxa David Škoch	6–1, 6–1
Loss	2–1		Los Angeles, United States	Hard	Rick Leach	Sébastien Lareau Alex O'Brien	6–7, 4–6
Win	3–1		Montréal, Canada	Hard	Leander Paes	Sébastien Lareau Alex O'Brien	7–6, 6–3
Win	4–1		New Haven, United States	Hard	Leander Paes	Sébastien Lareau Alex O'Brien	6–4, 6–7, 6–2
Win	5–1		Beijing, China	Hard (i)	Leander Paes	Jim Courier Alex O'Brien	7–5, 7–6
Win	6–1		Singapore, Singapore	Carpet	Leander Paes	Rick Leach Jonathan Stark	6–4, 6–4
Loss	6–2		ATP Finals, United States	Carpet	Leander Paes	Rick Leach Jonathan Stark	3–6, 4–6, 6–7
Win	7–2		Doha, Qatar	Hard	Leander Paes	Olivier Delaître Fabrice Santoro	6–4, 3–6, 6–4
Win	8–2		Dubai, United Arab Emirates	Hard	Leander Paes	Donald Johnson Francisco Montana	6–2, 7–5
Win	9–2		Maharashtra Open, India	Hard	Leander Paes	Olivier Delaître Max Mirnyi	6–7, 6–3, 6–2
Win	10–2		Rome, Italy	Clay	Leander Paes	Ellis Ferreira Rick Leach	6–4, 4–6, 7–6
Win	11–2		Shanghai, China	Carpet	Leander Paes	Todd Woodbridge Mark Woodforde	6–4, 6–7, 7–6
Loss	11–3		Singapore, Singapore	Carpet	Leander Paes	Todd Woodbridge Mark Woodforde	2–6, 3–6
Loss	11–4		Eurocard Open, Germany	Hard (i)	Leander Paes	Sébastien Lareau Alex O'Brien	3–6, 6–3, 5–7
Win	12–4		Paris Masters, France	Carpet	Leander Paes	Jacco Eltingh Paul Haarhuis	6–4, 6–2
Loss	12–5		Australian Open, Australia	Hard	Leander Paes	Jonas Björkman Patrick Rafter	3–6, 6–4, 4–6, 7–6, 4–6
Win	13–5		Maharashtra Open, India	Hard	Leander Paes	Wayne Black Neville Godwin	4–6, 7–5, 6–4
Win	14–5		French Open, France	Clay	Leander Paes	Goran Ivanišević Jeff Tarango	6–2, 7–5
Win	15–5		London, United Kingdom	Grass	Leander Paes	Paul Haarhuis Jared Palmer	6–7, 6–3, 6–4, 7–6
Loss	15–6		New York, United States	Hard	Leander Paes	Sébastien Lareau Alex O'Brien	6–7, 4–6
Loss	15–7		ATP Finals, United States	Carpet	Leander Paes	Sébastien Lareau Alex O'Brien	3–6, 2–6, 2–6
Win	16–7		St. Pölten, Austria	Clay	Andrew Kratzmann	Andrea Gaudenzi Diego Nargiso	7–6, 6–7, 6–4
Loss	16–8		Halle Open, Germany	Grass	David Prinosil	Nicklas Kulti Mikael Tillström	6–7, 6–7
Win	17–8		Tokyo, Japan	Hard	Leander Paes	Michael Hill Jeff Tarango	6–4, 6–7, 6–3
Loss	17–9		ATP Finals, India	Hard	Leander Paes	Donald Johnson Piet Norval	6–7, 3–6, 4–6
Win	18–9		Atlanta, United States	Clay	Leander Paes	Rick Leach David Macpherson	6–3, 7–6
Win	19–9		Houston, United States	Clay	Leander Paes	Kevin Kim Jim Thomas	7–6, 6–2
Win	20–9		French Open, France	Clay	Leander Paes	Petr Pála Pavel Vízner	7–6, 6–3
Win	21–9		Cincinnati Open, United States	Hard	Leander Paes	Martin Damm David Prinosil	7–6, 6–3
Loss	21–10		Indianapolis, United States	Hard	Sébastien Lareau	Mark Knowles Brian MacPhie	6–7, 7–5, 4–6
Loss	21–11		Kremlin Cup, Russia	Carpet	Jeff Tarango	Max Mirnyi Sandon Stolle	3–6, 0–6
Loss	21–12		Swiss Indoors, Switzerland	Carpet	Leander Paes	Ellis Ferreira Rick Leach	6–7, 4–6
Loss	21–13		Paris Masters, France	Carpet	Leander Paes	Ellis Ferreira Rick Leach	6–3, 4–6, 3–6
Win	22–13		Maharashtra Open, India	Hard	Leander Paes	Tomáš Cibulec Ota Fukárek	5–7, 6–2, 7–5
Win	23–13		Valencia Open, Spain	Clay	Leander Paes	Julian Knowle Michael Kohlmann	6–2, 6–4
Win	24–13		Hamburg, Germany	Clay	Jan-Michael Gambill	Jonas Björkman Todd Woodbridge	6–2, 6–4
Loss	24–14		London, United Kingdom	Grass	Max Mirnyi	Wayne Black Kevin Ullyett	5–7, 3–6
Loss	24–15		Cincinnati Open, United States	Hard	Max Mirnyi	James Blake Todd Martin	5–7, 3–6
Loss	24–16		Indianapolis, United States	Hard	Max Mirnyi	Mark Knowles Daniel Nestor	6–7, 7–6, 4–6
Win	25–16		Long Island, United States	Hard	Mike Bryan	Petr Pála Pavel Vízner	6–3, 6–4
Win	26–16		New York, United States	Hard	Max Mirnyi	Jiří Novák Radek Štěpánek	6–3, 3–6, 6–4
Loss	26–17		Madrid, Spain	Hard (i)	Max Mirnyi	Mark Knowles Daniel Nestor	3–6, 5–7, 0–6
Loss	26–18		Sydney, Australia	Hard	Joshua Eagle	Paul Hanley Nathan Healey	6–7, 4–6
Win	27–18		Portugal Open, Portugal	Clay	Max Mirnyi	Lucas Arnold Ker Mariano Hood	6–1, 6–2
Win	28–18		Monte Carlo, Monaco	Clay	Max Mirnyi	Michaël Llodra Fabrice Santoro	6–4, 3–6, 7–6
Loss	28–19		Hamburg, Germany	Clay	Max Mirnyi	Mark Knowles Daniel Nestor	4–6, 6–7
Loss	28–20		London, United Kingdom	Grass	Max Mirnyi	Mark Knowles Daniel Nestor	7–5, 4–6, 6–7
Loss	28–21		London, United Kingdom	Grass	Max Mirnyi	Jonas Björkman Todd Woodbridge	6–3, 3–6, 6–7, 3–6
Win	29–21		Montréal, Canada	Hard	Max Mirnyi	Jonas Björkman Todd Woodbridge	6–3, 7–6
Win	30–21		Kremlin Cup, Russia	Carpet	Max Mirnyi	Wayne Black Kevin Ullyett	6–3, 7–5
Loss	30–22		Vienna Open, Austria	Hard (i)	Max Mirnyi	Yves Allegro Roger Federer	6–7, 5–7
Win	31–22		Madrid, Spain	Hard (i)	Max Mirnyi	Wayne Black Kevin Ullyett	6–2, 2–6, 6–3
Win	32–22		Auckland, New Zealand	Hard	Fabrice Santoro	Wayne Black Kevin Ullyett	4–6, 7–5, 6–3
Win	33–22		Dubai, United Arab Emirates	Hard	Fabrice Santoro	Jonas Björkman Leander Paes	6–2, 4–6, 6–4
Win	34–22		Rome, Italy	Clay	Max Mirnyi	Wayne Arthurs Paul Hanley	2–6, 6–3, 6–4
Win	35–22		Swedish Open, Sweden	Clay	Jonas Björkman	Simon Aspelin Todd Perry	4–6, 7–6, 7–6
Win	36–22		Toronto, Canada	Hard	Leander Paes	Jonas Björkman Max Mirnyi	6–4, 6–2
Loss	36–23		Kremlin Cup, Russia	Carpet	Jonas Björkman	Igor Andreev Nikolay Davydenko	6–3, 3–6, 4–6
Loss	36–24		Maharashtra Open, India	Hard	Jonas Björkman	Yen-Hsun Lu Rainer Schüttler	5–7, 6–4, 6–7
Win	37–24		Sydney, Australia	Hard	Todd Woodbridge	Arnaud Clément Michaël Llodra	6–3, 6–3
Win	38–24		Beijing, China	Hard	Mario Ančić	Michael Berrer Kenneth Carlsen	6–4, 6–3
Win	39–24		Mumbai, India	Hard	Mario Ančić	Rohan Bopanna Mustafa Ghouse	6–4, 6–7, 10–8
Loss	39–25		Dubai, United Arab Emirates	Hard	Radek Štěpánek	Fabrice Santoro Nenad Zimonjić	5–7, 7–6, 7–10
Win	40–25		Montréal, Canada	Hard	Pavel Vízner	Paul Hanley Kevin Ullyett	6–4, 6–4
Win	41–25		New Haven, United States	Hard	Nenad Zimonjić	Mariusz Fyrstenberg Marcin Matkowski	6–3, 6–3
Win	42–25		Memphis, United States	Hard (i)	Mark Knowles	Sanchai Ratiwatana Sonchat Ratiwatana	7–6, 6–2
Win	43–25		Dubai, United Arab Emirates	Hard	Mark Knowles	Martin Damm Pavel Vízner	7–5, 7–6
Loss	43–26		Miami, United States	Hard	Mark Knowles	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	2–6, 2–6
Loss	43–27		Monte Carlo, Monaco	Clay	Mark Knowles	Rafael Nadal Tommy Robredo	3–6, 3–6
Loss	43–28		s'Hertogenbosch, Netherlands	Grass	Leander Paes	Mario Ančić Jürgen Melzer	6–7, 3–6
Loss	43–29		New Haven, United States	Hard	Mark Knowles	Marcelo Melo André Sá	5–7, 2–6
Loss	43–30		Madrid, Spain	Hard (i)	Mark Knowles	Mariusz Fyrstenberg Marcin Matkowski	4–6, 2–6
Win	44–30		Swiss Indoors, Switzerland	Carpet	Mark Knowles	Christopher Kas Philipp Kohlschreiber	6–3, 6–3
Loss	44–31		Australian Open, Australia	Hard	Mark Knowles	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	6–2, 5–7, 0–6
Loss	44–32		Barcelona, Spain	Clay	Mark Knowles	Daniel Nestor Nenad Zimonjić	3–6, 6–7
Win	45–32		Montréal, Canada	Hard	Mark Knowles	Max Mirnyi Andy Ram	6–4, 6–3
Loss	45–33		New York, United States	Hard	Mark Knowles	Lukáš Dlouhý Leander Paes	6–3, 3–6, 2–6
Loss	45–34		Miami, United States	Hard	Max Mirnyi	Lukáš Dlouhý Leander Paes	2–6, 5–7
Loss	45–35		Monte Carlo, Monaco	Clay	Max Mirnyi	Daniel Nestor Nenad Zimonjić	3–6, 0–2, RET.
Loss	45–36		Cincinnati Open, United States	Hard	Max Mirnyi	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	3–6, 4–6
Loss	45–37		Valencia Open, Spain	Hard (i)	Max Mirnyi	Andy Murray Jamie Murray	6–7(8–10), 7–5, 7–10
Win	46–37		Paris Masters, France	Hard (i)	Max Mirnyi	Mark Knowles Andy Ram	7–5, 7–5
Loss	46–38		ATP Finals, United Kingdom	Hard (i)	Max Mirnyi	Daniel Nestor Nenad Zimonjić	6–7(6–8), 4–6
Win	47–38		Maharashtra Open, India	Hard	Leander Paes	Robin Haase David Martin	6–2, 6–7(3–7), 10–7
Loss	47–39		Australian Open, Australia	Hard	Leander Paes	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	3–6, 4–6
Win	48–39		Miami, United States	Hard	Leander Paes	Max Mirnyi Daniel Nestor	6–7(5–7), 6–2, 10–5
Loss	48–40		London, United Kingdom	Grass	Leander Paes	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	7–6(7–2), 6–7(4–7), 6–10
Win	49–40		Cincinnati Open, United States	Hard	Leander Paes	Michaël Llodra Nenad Zimonjić	7–6(7–4), 7–6(7–2)
Win	50–40		Dubai, United Arab Emirates	Hard	Rohan Bopanna	Mariusz Fyrstenberg Marcin Matkowski	6–4, 3–6, 10–5
Loss	50–41		Cincinnati Open, United States	Hard	Rohan Bopanna	Robert Lindstedt Horia Tecău	4–6, 4–6
Loss	50–42		Shanghai, China	Hard	Rohan Bopanna	Leander Paes Radek Štěpánek	7–6(9–7), 3–6, 5–10
Win	51–42		Paris Masters, France	Hard (i)	Rohan Bopanna	Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi Jean-Julien Rojer	7–6(8–6), 6–3
Loss	51–43		ATP Finals, United Kingdom	Hard (i)	Rohan Bopanna	Marcel Granollers Marc López	5–7, 6–3, 3–10
Win	52–43		Dubai, United Arab Emirates	Hard	Michaël Llodra	Robert Lindstedt Nenad Zimonjić	7–6(8–6), 7–6(8–6)
Loss	52–44		Rome, Italy	Clay	Rohan Bopanna	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	2–6, 3–6

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Performance timelines

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Doubles

Grand Slam tournaments

Australian Open

A

A

1R

SF

F

A

1R

2R

1R

QF

QF

3R

QF

SF

F

1R

F

3R

3R

2R

1R

2R

41–19

French Open

A

A

2R

SF

W

2R

W

SF

QF

SF

1R

QF

SF

1R

3R

2R

2R

1R

1R

A

1R

A

40–16

Wimbledon

Q1

Q2

1R

2R

W

3R

1R

QF

F

3R

2R

1R

A

1R

QF

3R

2R

2R

QF

A

1R

A

29–16

US Open

2R

Q1

SF

SF

F

1R

1R

W

QF

3R

3R

1R

2R

3R

F

2R

QF

1R

1R

A

A

A

38–17

Year-end championship

ATP Finals

DNQ

F

RR

F

F

NH

RR

RR

RR

Did not qualify

RR

SF

F

SF

F

Did not qualify !24–23

Olympic Games

Summer Olympics

NH

2R

Not Held

2R

Not Held

4th

Not Held

QF

Not Held

2R

Not Held

A !8–6

ATP Masters Series

Indian Wells

A

A

A

A

SF

A

1R

2R

2R

SF

1R

1R

1R

QF

2R

1R

2R

1R

1R

A

A

A

11–14

Miami

A

Q1

2R

1R

2R

A

A

QF

1R

2R

QF

A

1R

F

1R

F

W

SF

2R

1R

A

A

23–14

Monte Carlo

A

A

A

SF

2R

A

SF

1R

W

QF

QF

SF

2R

F

QF

F

A

2R

A

A

A

A

22–13

Madrid

Not Held

F

W

SF

QF

1R

A

F

2R

A

A

SF

QF

A

1R

2R

16–10

Rome

A

A

A

W

1R

1R

1R

QF

SF

W

SF

2R

1R

2R

SF

2R

2R

SF

F

A

A

A

21–14

Canada

A

A

W

SF

A

QF

1R

2R

W

W

QF

A

W

QF

W

SF

2R

2R

A

A

A

A

28–9

Cincinnati

A

A

QF

1R

2R

1R

W

F

SF

QF

QF

2R

2R

SF

SF

F

W

F

A

A

A

A

27–14

Shanghai

Not Held

SF

QF

SF

F

A

A

A

A

8–4

Paris Masters

A

A

1R

W

2R

1R

F

2R

A

SF

A

A

A

2R

2R

W

2R

W

A

A

A

A

16–9

Hamburg

A

A

A

QF

2R

2R

1R

W

F

2R

QF

1R

2R

2R

Not Masters Series

12–9

Eurocard Open

A

A

QF

F

A

2R

QF

Not Held

6–4

Career statistics

Year-end ranking

162

106

11

3

2

39

6

4

4

7

19

30

21

6

7

6

7

11

35

344

699

186

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Mixed doubles

Grand Slam tournaments

Australian Open

A

SF

2R

A

2R

SF

QF

1R

A

W

1R

F

W

A

QF

SF

QF

2R

1R !2 / 15

French Open

W

2R

QF

A

SF

QF

F

1R

QF

2R

1R

SF

1R

1R

2R

W

1R

A

A !2 / 16

Wimbledon

3R

F

2R

1R

SF

W

3R

QF

W

2R

2R

2R

3R

2R

F

2R

1R

A

1R !2 / 18

US Open

1R

QF

W

1R

1R

2R

2R

2R

W

A

QF

2R

SF

1R

1R

2R

1R

A

A !2 / 16

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Grand Slam seedings The tournaments won by Bhupathi are in boldface, and advanced into finals by Bhupathi are in italics.

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Men's doubles

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seeded No. 1 ( 2 / 6)

seeded No. 2 (0 / 3)

seeded No. 3 ( 1 / 14)

seeded No. 4–10 (0 / 29)

seeded No. 11–16 (0 / 2)

unseeded ( 1 / 16)

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4

8

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3

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unseeded

did not qualify

10th

4th

1st (2)

unseeded

5th

3rd (4)

1st

4th

7th

unseeded

6th

4th

3rd (5)

4th

4th

8th

unseeded

did not play

did not play

did not play

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Mixed doubles

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seeded No. 1 (0 / 6)

seeded No. 2 ( 1 / 3)

seeded No. 3 ( 1 / 8)

seeded No. 4–10 ( 1 / 20)

seeded No. 11–16 ( 1 / 5)

unseeded ( 4 / 23)

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2

1

3

9

2

6

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8th

5th

2nd (2)

5th

6th

3rd

1st

3rd

unseeded (5)

did not play

unseeded

unseeded

1st

unseeded

6th

6th

Wild card

did not play

did not play

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Davis Cup and Asian Games Bhupathi has donned Indian colours numerous times for the Davis Cup as well as other international tournaments, including the Asian Games.

Bhupathi has played 55 matches for India in the Davis Cup (from 1995 to 2011), winning 35 and losing 20. Out of the 35 matches that he won, 27 of his victories came in doubles matches.

In 2006, Bhupathi won the doubles championship with Leander Paes at the Asian Games in Doha.

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Personal life In 2001, he was awarded the Padma Shri, one of India's highest civilian awards. Bhupathi is an alumnus of the University of Mississippi in the United States. He is the founder of Globosport India private Limited which he started in 2002 as a sports and entertainment agency.

He married model Shvetha Jaishankar in 2002 but the couple got divorced in 2009 after seven years of marriage. He then married Miss Universe 2000 Lara Dutta in a civil ceremony on 16 February 2011 at Bandra, Mumbai. It was followed by a Christian ceremony on 20 February 2011 at Sunset Point in Goa.

On 1 August 2011, Dutta confirmed that she was pregnant with their first child. Their daughter Saira was born on 20 January 2012. In 2010, the couple started a film production company, Big Daddy Productions.

In 2014, Mahesh Bhupathi launched an authentic Indian sports brand, ZEVEN. The company currently endorses Ravindra Jadeja, Rohan Bopanna, Shikhar Dhawan and Mary Kom, amongst others.

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Partnerships

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Partners in doubles

1	Leander Paes	1994–2006 2008–2011
2	Dick Norman	1994
3	Sulistyo Wibowo	1995
4	Jeff Belloli	1995
5	Peter Tramacchi	1995–1996, 1998–1999
6	Chris Haggard	1995–1996, 2006
7	Ross Matheson	1995
8	Robert Devens	1995
9	Ali Hamadeh	1995–1996
10	João Cunha-Silva	1995
11	Tomas Nydahl	1996
12	Jamie Holmes	1996
13	Nebojsa Djordjevic	1996
14	Wayne Black	1996–1997
15	Kent Kinnear	1996
16	Jean-Philippe Fleurian	1997
17	Tommy Ho	1997
18	Rick Leach	1997
19	Sandeep Kirtane	1997
20	Fazaluddin Syed	1998, 2000–2001
21	Mark Knowles	1998, 2000, 2008–2009, 2011
22	Yevgeny Kafelnikov	1998
23	Baris Ergun	1998
24	Paul Haarhuis	1998
25	Srinath Prahlad	1998
26	Gaurav Natekar	1998
27	Mosé Navarra	1999, 2001
28	Tim Henman	1999, 2003, 2007
29	Andrei Pavel	1999
30	Wayne Ferreira	1999
31	Andrew Florent	1999
32	Wayne Arthurs	2000
33	Andrew Kratzmann	2000
34	David Prinosil	2000
35	Kevin Ullyett	2000
36	Nenad Zimonjić	2000, 2002, 2007, 2012
37	Scott Humphries	2000
38	Byron Black	2000
39	Dominik Hrbatý	2001
40	Sébastien Lareau	2001
41	Jeff Tarango	2001–2002
42	Vittaya Samrej	2001
43	Jan-Michael Gambill	2002, 2004
44	Brian MacPhie	2002
45	Max Mirnyi	2002–2004, 2010
46	Todd Woodbridge	2002–2003, 2005
47	Mike Bryan	2002
48	Jonas Björkman	2002, 2004–2005
49	Joshua Eagle	2003
50	Rohan Bopanna	2003, 2007–2013
51	Dmitry Tursunov	2004
52	Fabrice Santoro	2004, 2006–2007
53	Paul Hanley	2004, 2007
54	Fernando González	2005
55	Martin Damm	2005
56	Justin Gimelstob	2005–2007
57	Wesley Moodie	2006
58	Radek Štěpánek	2006–2007
59	Leoš Friedl	2006
60	Robby Ginepri	2006
61	Julian Knowle	2006, 2013
62	Xavier Malisse	2006
63	Alexander Waske	2006
64	Mario Ančić	2006
65	James Blake	2006
66	Pavel Vízner	2007
67	Jamie Murray	2007
68	Marcel Granollers	2011
69	Michal Mertiňák	2011
70	Daniel Nestor	2013
71	Michaël Llodra	2013
72	Philipp Petzschner	2013
73	Robert Lindstedt	2013
74	Rajeev Ram	2014
75	Denis Istomin	2014
75	Kevin Anderson	2014
76	Saketh Myneni	2015
77	Jürgen Melzer	2015
78	Mikhail Youzhny	2015
79	Nick Kyrgios	2015
80	Juan Sebastián Cabal	2015
81	Janko Tipsarević	2015
82.	Gilles Müller	2016
83.	Purav Raja	2016
84.	Jonathan Marray	2016
85.	Yuki Bhambri	2016

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Partners in mixed doubles

1	Rika Hiraki	1997
2	Caroline Vis	1998
3	Rennae Stubbs	1998
4	Mirjana Lučić	1998 1999
5	Ai Sugiyama	1999 2000 2001
6	Annabel Ellwood	1999
7	Martina Navratilova
8	Elena Likhovtseva	2001 2002 2003 2004
9	Jelena Dokić	2001
10	Iroda Tulyaganova	2003
11	Paola Suárez	2003, 2007
12	Lisa Raymond	2004 2005
13	Mary Pierce	2005
14	Daniela Hantuchová	2005 2007 2010 2013
15	Martina Hingis	2006 2013
16	Yan Zi	2006
17	Sania Mirza	2007 2008 2009 2011 2012
18	Zheng Jie	2008 2011
19	Samantha Stosur	2008
20	Liezel Huber	2009 2010
21	Anastasia Rodionova	2011
22	Elena Vesnina	2011 2014
23	Andrea Hlaváčková	2012
24	Nadia Petrova	2013
25	Casey Dellacqua	2013
26	Jarmila Gajdošová	2015
27.	Alla Kudryavtseva	2015

• These lists only consists of players who played with Mahesh Bhupathi in ATP(& ITF)-recognized tournaments which include the Olympics, Grand Slams, World Tour Finals, World Tour Masters, World Tour Series, Davis Cup, and . The lists might be incomplete when all the other tournaments are considered. The order of the players in the list is based on their first partnering with Mahesh Bhupathi.

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Other partners

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India – Asian Games/Commonwealth Games/Other Events

• Leander Paes

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Partnership with Leander Paes Bhupathi and Leander Paes partnered in the men's doubles event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, but lost the quarterfinals, 2008 Ordina Open Men's Doubles Draw to Roger Federer and Stanislas Wawrinka of Switzerland, who went on to win the gold medal.

Paes and Bhupathi decided to team up again at the Australian Open 2011, ending a nine-year separation on the ATP circuit. They reached the finals of the event, but lost to American twins Bob and Mike Bryan. Paes stated at the time that the best thing has been to have their friendship back.ATP World Tour Finals interview

The Indian duo has a 303–103 career record together. They have a Davis Cup record of longest winning streak in doubles, with 23 straight wins.

Leander Paes wanted to play with Mahesh Bhupathi in the men's doubles event of the London Olympics, to be held July–August 2012. On 19 June 2012, the All India Tennis association relented to the demands of Bhupathi and Bopanna of not playing along Paes. Two teams were sent for the London Olympics- 2012, with Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna as one team and the other team consisting of Leander Paes and Vishnu Vardhan. Bhupathi also accused AITA of using Sania Mirza as bait for Leander's participation in the Olympics. When AITA relented to the wishes of Bhupathi and Bopanna and permitted them to play together, they lost in the second round to the unseeded French pairing of Richard Gasquet and Julien Benneteau.

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Davis Cup record The duo of Bhupathi and Paes has the longest doubles streak in Davis Cup history.

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Sports management and e-commerce Bhupathi has also been involved in developing tennis facilities in India and, along with his company Globosport, has played a key role in developing and managing the careers of many Indian athletes, including Sania Mirza.

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International Premier Tennis League Mahesh Bhupathi announced the founding of the International Premier Tennis League on 25 May 2013, in Paris. The initial plan was to start the sports league with six charter franchises in Asia with the inaugural season commencing in November 2014. Bhupathi said the league would be modeled after the Indian Premier League, a cricket league in India. Justin Gimelstob said that the league would be star-driven as World Team Tennis was in the 1970s.

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In popular culture Break Point – A documentary series of Zee5 app released in 2021 unfolding the ups and downs in the relationship between Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi.

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Awards

• Padma Shri, 2001
• Sports people for Change Karmaveer Puraskaar, 2007, iCONGO-Confederation of NGOs
• Davis Cup Commitment Award
• Kempegowda Award by Govt of Karnataka - 2025

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See also Forca Kochi FC

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Notes

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External links

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