Indian tennis ace Rohan Bopanna says he is looking forward to the Olympics this year and has devised his schedule this year based on the Tokyo Games. Speaking to the Olympic Channel, 39 year old Bopanna says, “It’s another exciting season (with the Olympics involved).

It’s a great honour to represent India at an event as big as the Olympics. I am happy to get the title in Doha at the start of the year. But having said that, we have a lot of big events like not only the Grand Slams but also the Masters Series before going into the Olympics.

But I am happy and I am looking forward to it.” Bopanna continues, “I think the calendar is already planned in such a way that it’s between two Grand Slams (Wimbledon and US Open). And you know, in tennis, we have so many big events scheduled in our season that we constantly are playing the best players in the world.

So that really helps in making you a better player and make you ready for a big event like the 2020 Olympics.” The qualification for the Olympics will be based on the rankings of Bopanna and Divij Sharan. The two are playing with different partners currently in order to improve their ranking and hope to pair up closer to the Games once their rankings are high enough to enter the ATP tournaments.

“At this juncture, Divij and I are the only two players who are high enough (on the ATP Rankings) to try and qualify for the Olympics. We played a few events (as a pair) last year and we did end up winning the title in Pune.

Really excited to be playing with him. We had the gold medal at the Asian Games. I think we gel well as a team.”

source: http://www.tennisworldusa.org / Tennis World / Home> Tennis News> Indian Tennis / by Harish / February 16th, 2020