Schedule for Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi


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Notes: Below is the most up-to-date schedule available till mid September 1999. Please check often for changes. If only Mahesh or Leander is at a tournament in any week, it is marked below with MB, or LP, respectively. They will not play doubles together at the challengers even if they are both playing singles there .. Update date: Jul 11, 1999 .. See the notes at the bottom..

[Anybody (preferably a Leander-Mahesh fan) planning to attend any of these tournaments, let us know. The fan club would like score updates or match reports.. send email to R. Jayakrishnan.. Thanks! ]

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1999
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Jan  4 - 10       Qatar Open, Doha                          (hardcourt)
    11 - 16       Sydney Open, Australia                    (hardcourt)
    18 - 24       Australian Open                           (hardcourt)
    25 - 31       Australian Open                           (hardcourt)
Feb  1 -  7       Calcutta Challenger, India                (grass)
     8 - 14       Dubai Open                                (hardcourt)
    15 - 21       Davis Cup, India at South Korea           (hardcourt)
    22 - 28       Rest week
Mar  1 -  7   MB  Singapore challenger                      (hardcourt)
     8 - 14       Indian Wells Super 9, California, USA     (hardcourt)
    15 - 21       Key Biscayne Super 9, Florida, USA        (hardcourt)
    22 - 28       Key Biscayne Super 9, Florida, USA        (hardcourt)
    29 -  4       Davis Cup, India vs China,  Calcutta      (grass)
Apr  5 - 11       $405K ATP Goldflake Chennai Open, India   (hardcourt)
    12 - 18       $25K+H New Delhi Challenger, India        (hardcourt)
    19 - 25       $2.2M Monte Carlo Super 9                 (clay)
    26 -  2       Off week
May  3 -  9   MB  $2.3M German Open Super 9, Hamburg        (clay)
    10 - 16       $2.4M Italian Open Super 9, Rome          (clay)
    17 - 23       FO Quals, Off-week, or St.Poelten, Fra.   (clay)
    24 - 30       French Open, week-2                       (clay)
    31 -  6       French Open, week-2                       (clay)
Jun  7 - 13       $675K ATP Queens, London                  (grass)
    14 - 21   LP  $475K ATP sHertogenbosch (D w/ Siemerink) (grass)
              MB  Wimbledon qualifying rounds               (grass)
    21 - 27       Wimbledon week-1                          (grass)
    28 -  4       Wimbledon week-2                          (grass)
Jul  5 - 11   LP  $295K Newport Hall-of-Fame                (grass)
              MB  Off week.
    12 - 18       Off week for both.
    19 - 25   MB  ATP Stuttgart outdoors (D w/ Kafelnikov)  (hard)
              LP  Off week
    26 -  1   LP  $300K L.A. Mercedes-Benz (D w/ Bjorkman)  (hard)
              MB  $100K+H Istanbul challenger               (hard)
Aug  2 -  8       $2.3M Canadian Open Super 9, Montreal     (hard)
     9 - 15       $2.3M Cincinnati Super 9                  (hard)
    16 - 22   LP  $745K Indianapolis ATP, Washington, DC    (hard)
    23 - 29       US Open qualifying rounds                 (hard)
    30 -  5       US Open                                   (hard)
Sep  6 - 12       US Open                                   (hard)

Later schedule (tentative)

Sep13-Oct03       Off weeks (for LP)
Oct04-Oct10       Shanghai ATP (LP may get wildcard)
Oct11-Oct17       Singapore ATP (LP may get wildcard)
Oct18-Oct24       Off-week ?
Oct25-Oct31       Stuttgart Super 9
Nov01-Nov07       Paris Super 9
Nov08-Nov14       Off-week
Nov15-Nov21       Hartford Doubles Championships
Nov22-Nov28       Mauritius Challenger (grass)
Nov29-Dec05       Lucknow Challenger
Dec06-Dec12       Bangalore Challenger
Jan03-Jan09       $450K Chennai Gold Flake Open
Jan31-Feb06       Calcutta Challenger

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Schedule Update Jul/11/99 Notes: .. MB may skip Stuttgart if his abdomen injury is not healed, and may need a wildcard entry at the Istanbul challenger (he had one last year from them) .. LP will play singles at Los Angeles (he is 2 out from main draw at LA singles now, but he will get at least a special exempt entry) .. Not sure yet of singles entries at the Mont/Cinc super 9s .. LP is now in the draw for Indianapolis .. LP will need to play qualifiers at the US Open .. I will soon confirm MB's schedule in August before USO, but I expect him to be at both the Super 9s with LP (unless they decide to skip the Super 9s since they are so far ahead in doubles ranking anyway and focus on singles - not likely) ..