Bopanna to break off with Aisam for London 2012
Rohan Bopanna, the Indian doubles star, has recently decided that he will no longer be playing for peace but instead will be focusing all his energies on the London 2012 Olympic Games.
Previously, the Indian doubles expert had forged an alliance with his Pakistani counterpart, Aisam-ul-Haq, in order to deliver a message of peace across their nations and to the entire world as well. For this purpose, the due had been playing the doubles
tennis matches as a team for the previous two seasons.
Aisam explained his partnership with Bopanna by expressing himself in the following words, “Just making people change their minds about, you know, peace and stuff. It’s very good to see Pakistanis and Indians supporting one team. There were a lot of Pakistanis
and Indians in the crowd sitting together. So it’s really nice to see. If Rohan and me can get along well together on the court, and off the court, there’s no reason other Pakistanis and Indians can’t get along.”
The two rising tennis players of the sub continent had advocated peace through wearing jackets at their matches that had “Stop War, Start Tennis” written on the backs. These jackets were famously worn at the Wimbledon 2010. It was also in the pipeline that
the two players will be playing in an exhibition match across the border.
Interestingly, the partnership between the two players brought each of them greater success than either of them was able to achieve individually or while working with some other partner. Both of them were able to enter the top ten slots for the first time
in their careers while playing together.
However, Bopanna will now be partnering with his fellow Indian Mahesh Bhupathi so that the duo can prepare themselves for the Olympic Games next year. Both Bopanna and Bhupathi will take up the task of representing India in the Olympic Games.
The Olympic Games will be taking place in London for the third time after which London will become the first ever city in the world to have the honour of hosting the Games for a total of three times in its history.
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