Bopanna's big serving game was also missing today as he served five double faults in team's total of 12. His single-handed backhand winners were nowhere to be seen.
Rohan Bopanna and his partner Pablo Cuevas had lost their US Open men's doubles second round match to Fabio Fognini and Simone Bolelli.
Sania Mirza and Rohan Bopanna have reached the quarterfinals of their respective events at the US Open but the fledgling partnership of Leander Paes and Purav Raja has fallen flat yet again.
Tennis chiefs explained the delay in making a decision on a possible suspension on having to wait for a translation of the Fabio Fognini's brief remarks.
Veteran Paes and Raja thrashed Serbia's Janko Tipsarevic and Viktor Troicki 6-1, 6-3 at the Flushing Meadows.
Bopanna and Uruguay's Pablo Cuevas shrugged off a surprise first set lapse to regroup and beat American pair of Bradley Klahn and Scott Lipksy 1-6 6-3 6-4 in the opening round of the men's doubles event.
While Sania and her Chinese partner Shuai Peng lost in the last four of the WTA event, Bopanna and his Croatian partner were outdone in a thrilling quarterfinal of ATP men's doubles event.
In the WTA event, being run simultaneously, Sania Mirza and Shuai Peng have reached the semifinals with a 6-3 6-7(1) 10-3 win over Irina-Camelia Begu and Raluca Olaru.
Yuki Bhambri and Saketh Myneni, injured during the Uzbekistan tie, return to Davis Cup squad as veteran Leander Paes is dropped.
French Open mixed doubles champion Rohan Bopanna blasts the national association for not nominating his name for the Arjuna Award within the deadline.
India's sole ATP event will be held in Pune from next year.
The Indo-Canadian duo of Rohan Bopanna and Gabriela Dabrowski lost a two-hour quarter-final battle in the mixed doubles event.
Rohan Bopanna and Gabriela Dabrowski reached the mixed doubles quarter-finals; Sania Mirza and Ivan Dodig lost out in Round 3 of the same event.
Sania Mirza advanced to the third round of both the women's and mixed doubles events, while Rohan Bopanna and Purav Raja also won their respective mixed doubles matches
Sania Mirza and Rohan Bopanna advanced to the pre-quarters of the women's doubles and mixed doubles, respectively.
The Indian pair of Sharan and Raja lost a marathon battle in the second round of the men's doubles.
After the French Open mixed doubles title, Rohan Bopanna has set his eyes on Wimbledon.
The Indo-Canadian pair of Rohan Bopanna and Gabriela Dabrowski beat the Columbian-German pair of Robert Farah and Anna-Lena Gronefeld 2-6, 6-2, 12-10 to win the mixed doubles French Open title.
