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Bhupathi-Paes To Reunite In 2011 In Bid To Complete Career Grand Slam

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Paes, Bhupathi© AFP/Getty ImagesLeander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi have a 25-2 doubles record for India in Davis Cup ties.

'The Indian Express' will be back on the tracks in 2011, when Mahesh Bhupathi and Leander Paes will briefly reunite in their quest to complete a career Grand Slam at the Australian Open.

The veteran duo first teamed up in October 1994 and has compiled a 223-81 career record, which includes three Grand Slam doubles titles from five finals. Incredibly, they last competed at a major championship at the 2002 Australian Open.

Speaking exclusively to ATPWorldTour.com at the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals on Saturday, Paes admitted: “We’ll be playing together for a little bit at the start of the year.”

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Bhupathi confirmed the plan ahead of the season finale in London. “We have had very good success in the past and I think we’ll be able to start off well ahead of our bid to win the Australian Open,” the 36-year-old said.

Paes, who has a 6-6 record in Grand Slam men’s doubles finals, added: “The focus is the Australian Open, the only Grand Slam Mahesh and I have not won together. We won Roland Garros a couple of times, we won Wimbledon and the US Open with different partners, but we have not won in Melbourne.

“We’ll be trying to complete a career Grand Slam. We feel this is a good chance, as a lot of teams are splitting up at the end of the year. The Bryans, the Poles [Mariusz Fyrstenberg and Marcin Matkowski] and [Wesley] Moodie and [Dick] Norman are the only teams sticking together next year.”

Paes has qualified for the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals for the 12th time. He is competing in the English capital with Czech Lukas Dlouhy.

Bhupathi, who has a 4-5 record in major men’s doubles title matches, picked up the BNP Paribas Masters title with Max Mirnyi in Paris last week.

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