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- Mahesh Bhupathi is a retired Indian tennis player who achieved great success in both men's doubles and mixed doubles. Bhupathi was the first ever Indian to win a Grand Slam - he and Japanese player Rika Hiraki clinched the 1997 French Open together.
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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.
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The 1997 French Open was set to be Mahesh Bhupathi’s mixed doubles debut at a Grand Slamand it almost did not happen. On the eve of the deadline for players to enter their names for the main draw, Mahesh Bhupathi was still looking for a partner. As it turned out, Rika Hiraki was also in search for one after her original partner, Satoshi Iwabuchi ha...
Bhupathi-Hiraki were drawn in the bottom half at the French Open and were given a bye in the first round. The Indo-Japanese duo’s first main draw match came against Kristine Kunce and Scott Davis in the second round. The first set played out exactly how it was expected of a pair who had not played with each other before. Bhupathi-Hiraki lost the se...
The semi-finals would be Bhupathi-Hiraki’s biggest test yet. Up against them were then three-time Grand Slam mixed doubles champions Cyril Suk and Helena Sukova. Both pairs had had starkly similar campaigns until then – they had ground out three-set wins in the second and third rounds before being dominant in straight sets in the quarter-finals. On...
- French Open - 1997. Before Bhupathi, India had never known what brilliant tennis was. In fact, Bhupathi is the pioneer of Indian tennis and this journey to the greatest success began way back in 1997.
- French Open, Wimbledon, US Open - 1999. In 1999, Bhupathi and Paes won the French Open doubles title when the beat Goran Ivaniševi of Croatia and Jeff Tarango of United States in the final.
- French Open - 2001. Bhupathi took time to recover from the injury that he had suffered in 1999 and returned with a bang in 2001. He once again partnered with Paes as they lifted the French Open title.
- Wimbledon and US Open - 2002. 2002 was a great year for Bhupathi, as the Indian ace clinched one doubles and one mixed doubles Grand Slam title. He won the mixed doubles Wimbledon title pairing with Elena Likhovtseva of Russia and the men's doubles US Open title with Max Mirnyi.
With his victory in the mixed doubles event at the 1997 French Open, he became the first Indian to win a Grand Slam title. He went on to win four men’s doubles and seven more mixed doubles Grand Slam titles.
- Encyclopaedia Britannica
Jun 28, 2020 · When Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi became the first Indian pair to win a Grand Slam at the 1999 French Open, it was a historic achievement celebrated across the country.
Mahesh Bhupathi became the first Indian to win a major when he clinched the French Open mixed doubles title, in the company of Japan’s Rika Hiraki, in 1997. It was the first time that the Indian, 23 then, was competing in mixed doubles at a major.
Bhupathi: It did, and that’s why we won the French Open! So definitely the spark was there. We worked hard, came back and won another Grand Slam.
