Mahesh Bhupathi

Mahesh Bhupati

Mahesh Bhupathi

Mahesh Shrinivas Bhupathi popularly known as Mahesh Bhupathi was born on 7th June 1974 in Chennai is a great Indian tennis player, broadly considered as the better doubles players in the world and he achieved 11 Grand Slam titles. He became the first Indian to win a Grand Slam tournament in the year 1997. After he won the Australian Open Mixed Doubles 2006, he joined the elite group of eight tennis players who had received a Career Mixed Doubles Grand Slam. Mahesh was graduated from the University of Mississippi, USA. His father Mr. C.G. Krishna Bhupathi trained him right from his early years.

Career

In the year 1995, Mahesh Bhupathi started an efficient career in tennis. He joined with Leander Paes, the pair created wonders for the Indian tennis. In 1997, this pair won six ATP Doubles and achieved three doubles titles, among with Wimbledon and French Open in the year 1999. The pair became the first Indian squad to move the finals of all the four Grand Slams in 1999.
In 2002, Mahesh Bhupathi paired up with Max Mirnyi and they grabbed the US Open Doubles title. In the same year, Bhupathi has been honoured with the Padma Shri award one of the highest civilian awards, for his Brilliant permanence in tennis. In the same year, he won the 3rd Grand Slam Mixed Doubles title at Wimbledon, with the pair of Elena Likhovtseva. In the year 2004, he achieved the rank with the top 10 tennis Doubles players.

Bhupathi

paired up with Paes to participate at six more Competitions. The pair participated at Davis Cup, gained two ties and then paired to represent India in the year 2004 Athens Olympic Games, there they maintained to move the semi-finals. Further Mahesh among with Martina Hingis, defeated the squad of Daniel Nestor and Elena Likhovtseva in the Australian Open Mixed Doubles Competition in the year 2007, Bhupathi-Sania Mirza team won the mixed doubles title at the Australian .

In the year 2002, Mahesh Bhupathi achieved five doubles titles with different partners. Won titles in Mallorca and Chennai with the Paes, achieved TMS title in Hamburg with Gambill and in Long Island with M. Bryan, and the US Open with Max Mirnyi. And he won the TMS title in Monte Carlo and in Estoril in the year 2003, Mahesh Bhupathi living in Bangalore, he married to a Chennai model girl Shwetha Jaishankar on 24th November 2002.

Summary

• Mahesh Shrinivas is a great Indian tennis player
• He received the ' Arjuna Award' in 1996
• Became the first Indian to win a Grand Slam by winning the French Open Mixed Doubles title in 1997
• Won the Wimbledon and French Open Doubles Title in 1999
• Won US Open Mixed Doubles in 1999
• Won Australian Open Mixed Doubles in 2006
• Padma Shri Award in 2001