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Rohan Bopanna Gets Ready For Davis Cup Farewell As India Take On Morocco

Hauling itself up from World Group II should not be a complicated task for India when it takes on an unostentatious Morocco in the home tie, which will be more of a celebration of Rohan Bopanna's Davis Cup career, which will come to a halt after 21 years on Sunday. Lack of singles players who could challenge the big boys of the ATP circuit, coupled with defeats in winnable matches, has hurt the Indian Davis Cup team badly in the last few years in this team tournament, but relegation to World Group II was a new low the Indian team hit in February.

Prajnesh Faces US Open Finalist Casper Ruud, Ramkumar vs Durasovic In Davis Cup

Prajnesh Gunneswaran will open India's Davis Cup World Group I tie campaign against Norway number one and US Open runner-up Casper Ruud while Ramkumar Ramanathan will be up against lower-ranked Viktor Durasovic in the singles matches on the first day in Lillehammer, Norway, on Friday. The Indian team under non-playing captain Rohit Rajpal has gone by the rankings while choosing the singles players. Yuki Bhambri, who was the country's top singles player for long though he has dropped down in the rankings, will play in the doubles along with Saketh Myneni on Saturday. Prajnesh, ranked 335 in the world, faces a tough job against world number 2 Ruud who has been in red hot form after finishing second best to Carlos Alcaraz in the US Open.

Sumit Nagal Returns To Indian Davis Cup Team, Divij Sharan Dropped

Sumit Nagal on Thursday made a comeback to the Indian Davis Cup team for the away World Group I tie against Norway while doubles specialist Divij Sharan was dropped after falling behind in the pecking order. Expectedly, country's number one singles player Ramkumar Ramanathan (ranked 196), Prajnesh Gunneswaran (295), Sasikumar Mukund (431), Yuki Bhambri (571), doubles exponent Rohan Bopanna (21) have been named in the team as the Nandan Bal-led selection committee picked four specialist singles players.

Sumit Nagal returns to Indian Davis Cup team, Divij Sharan dropped

Davis Cup team for the away World Group I tie against Norway while doubles specialist Divij Sharan was dropped after falling behind in the pecking order. Expectedly, country's number one singles player Ramkumar Ramanathan (ranked 196), Prajnesh Gunneswaran (295), Sasikumar Mukund (431), Yuki Bhambri (571), doubles exponent Rohan Bopanna (21) have been named in the team as the Nandan Bal-led selection committee picked four specialist singles players. Arjun Kadhe (519) and Sidharth Rawat (566) are ranked above Yuki but if the Delhi player is to use his Protected Ranking, he would be in top-100.

Davis Cup: Ramkumar, Yuki win in straight sets to give India 2-0 lead over Denmark

Delhi Gymkhana – on expected lines – was playing low and fast, and the two Indians on show proved to be much superior against their ill-equipped Danish counterparts as India raced to a 2-0 lead against Denmark in their Davis Cup World Group 1 playoff tie on Friday. Both Ramkumar Ramanathan and Yuki Bhambri were on song from the first point of their respective matches. Ramkumar, India's No.1 singles player, unleashed his big serve and skillful serve-and-volley game that his opponent Christian Sigsgaard had no answer to.

India vs Denmark, Davis Cup: Will grass be greener on the Indian side?

Ramkumar Ramanathan, was seen serving big at the Delhi Gymkhana on Thursday. The organisers were checking the speed gun and Ramkumar was giving them the perfect trial for the machine before the India-Denmark World Group 1 Playoff tie to be played on Friday and Saturday. The fast, zipping grass at the Gymkhana – a venue specifically chosen to give the Indian team a home advantage against the Danes – is perfect for Ramkumar's preferred serve-and-volley game.

There is a gap in Indian tennis but structured plan in place for future: Rohit Rajpal

Davis Cup captain Rohit Rajpal acknowledged that there is a "gap" in Indian tennis at the moment with the next line not quite visible but asserted that a "structured plan" is in place to ensure that the fresh pool of talent emerges soon. Speaking to the media ahead of the Davis Cup World Group 1 play-off tie against Denmark on Friday and Saturday, Rajpal was asked about the plan for the future in Indian tennis given that the squad still features a 41-year-old doubles specialist in Rohan Bopanna. "We have a decent line-up for singles, we have a good line-up for doubles but we do have an issue that some of the players are getting older for example, Rohan is getting on the other side of 40, and that is worrying for me," Rajpal said in a press conference here.

We'll enjoy home advantage against Denmark, says Bopanna ahead of Davis Cup tie

Rohan Bopanna on Tuesday said that India will start as favourites against Denmark on the grass courts of the Delhi Gymkhana Club in the Davis Cup World Group-I Play-off tie, starting on Friday. "We are strong on the grass court, and that is the reason we picked the venue. It's a home-court advantage for us and I think on grass we have the best chance to beat Denmark," said Bopanna.

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Rohan Bopanna Gets Ready For Davis Cup Farewell As India Take On Morocco

Prajnesh Faces US Open Finalist Casper Ruud, Ramkumar vs Durasovic In Davis Cup

Sumit Nagal Returns To Indian Davis Cup Team, Divij Sharan Dropped

Sumit Nagal returns to Indian Davis Cup team, Divij Sharan dropped

Davis Cup: Ramkumar, Yuki win in straight sets to give India 2-0 lead over Denmark

India vs Denmark, Davis Cup: Will grass be greener on the Indian side?

There is a gap in Indian tennis but structured plan in place for future: Rohit Rajpal

We'll enjoy home advantage against Denmark, says Bopanna ahead of Davis Cup tie