{"id":22618,"date":"2021-07-20T15:08:45","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T09:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=128235"},"modified":"2021-07-20T15:08:45","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T09:38:45","slug":"rohan-bopanna-questions-confusion-over-qualification-for-tokyo-olympics-releases-alleged-call-recordings-with-aita-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/olympics\/rohan-bopanna-questions-confusion-over-qualification-for-tokyo-olympics-releases-alleged-call-recordings-with-aita-official\/","title":{"rendered":"Rohan Bopanna questions confusion over qualification for Tokyo Olympics; releases alleged call recordings with AITA official"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The All India Tennis Association (AITA) has issued a statement criticizing Rohan Bopanna after the Arjuna awardee and Sania Mirza alleged there has been misinformation about the Tokyo Olympics qualification from the Indian tennis body.<\/p>\n<p>An angry Bopanna has hit back at AITA and shared an alleged phone call with AITA general secretary Anil Dhupar, who insisted that Bopanna and Sumit Nagal will still make it to the Olympics. Bopanna tweeted the video of a phone call he allegedly had with him that showed Dhupar\u2019s name in his contacts. As a further statement, Bopanna urged AITA to stop lying about the blame lying with players.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGood morning\u2026 AITA Secretary General blatantly lying saying ITF accepted the entry.\u00a0 Stop LYING to everyone and its time for a change.\u00a0Its been 50+ years all players have suffered thanks to the federation incompetence,\u201d he captioned the tweet.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Are you surprised ?? It\u2019s always their word versus the players . And they always remain the constant with no accountability .. this time <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rohanbopanna?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@rohanbopanna<\/a> learnt from experience and has proof . But the agenda is always dismiss what the players say \ud83e\udd37\ud83c\udffd\u200d\u2642\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BI9tJFvBqj\">https:\/\/t.co\/BI9tJFvBqj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mahesh Bhupathi (@Maheshbhupathi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Maheshbhupathi\/status\/1417363234470850561?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 20, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The national tennis federation\u2019s statement condemned Sania Mirza\u2019s and Rohan Bopanna\u2019s comments criticizing the AITA, who accused the\u00a0AITA\u00a0of misleading \u201ceveryone\u201d by wrongly claiming that it had paired him with\u00a0Sumit\u00a0Nagal\u00a0for the Tokyo Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>For the men\u2019s doubles event, the All India Tennis Association (AITA) paired Bopanna and Divij Sharan, but they failed to make the cut due to their low combined ranking of 113. AITA, however, saw hope after Nagal made the cut for the men\u2019s singles on July 16 after many players withdrew. Due to the fact that singles players are given priority to fill doubles draws, AITA saw a chance for a men\u2019s doubles team to enter the event. According to the AITA, its new combination pairs Bopanna with Nagal.<\/p>\n<p>AITA\u2019s claim was countered by Bopanna, 41, on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cITF\u00a0has never accepted an entry for\u00a0Sumit\u00a0Nagal\u00a0& myself.\u00a0ITF\u00a0was clear that no changes were allowed after the nomination deadline (22nd June) unless Injury\/Illness.\u00a0AITA\u00a0has mislead the players, government, media and everyone else by stating we still have a chance,\u201d\u00a0Bopanna\u00a0tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>Secretary-general Anil Dhupar said the AITA reached out to the ITF for a change in nomination. <span style=\"text-transform: initial\">AITA said Bopanna\u2019s comments are \u201cdue to lack of knowledge and without understanding the facts, rules of ITF and is unwarranted and totally misleading.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven the comments of Sania Mirza are most inappropriate. Ranking of Rohan with Divij or Sumit Nagal were not good enough for qualification. So how did we we lose an opportunity to win medals either in men\u2019s doubles or mixed doubles,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n<p>The tennis competition is set to begin on July 24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian tennis star Rohan Bopanna has hit back at All India Tennis Association Secretary-General Anil Dhupar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":179,"featured_media":42804,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1983,1984,2004,2005,1526,1435,2046,345,202,2125,638,1972],"class_list":["post-22618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-olympics","tag-aita","tag-all-india-tennis-association","tag-divij-sharan","tag-itf","tag-olympics","tag-rohan-bopanna","tag-sania-mirza","tag-sumit-nagal","tag-tennis","tag-tokyo-games","tag-tokyo-olympics","tag-tokyo-olympics-2020"],"reading_time":"3 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/179"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}