AITA to refer Rohan Bopanna's call-recording act to ethics committee

The e-mail correspondence revealed that on July 2, AITA demanded a clarification from ITF on how the world body gave entry to USA (CR 118), Spain (CR 170) and Portugal (CR 204) in the men’s doubles despite the fact that their combined rank was below Bopanna and Sharan’s rank of 113

Rohan Bopanna’s act of making public his conversation with All India Tennis Association (AITA) secretary general Anil Dhupar will be referred to its ethics and managing committee, the sports body said on Tuesday.

AITA also released its complete correspondence with the International Tennis Federation (ITF) concerning the qualification of India’s men doubles team for the Tokyo Olympics.

Seeking to clear the air around the negative perception created by comments of Bopanna and Sania Mirza, the AITA put on record how it aggressively pursued the case of Bopanna and Divij Sharan for an entry into the Games, between June 28 and July 16.

The e-mail correspondence revealed that on July 2, AITA demanded a clarification from ITF on how the world body gave entry to USA (CR 118), Spain (CR 170) and Portugal (CR 204) in the men’s doubles despite the fact that their combined rank was below Bopanna and Sharan’s rank of 113.

Another correspondence revealed that AITA pleaded with ITF to consider Bopanna and Sharan’s feat of the 2018 Asian Games for an entry. The ITF, though, back in 2018, had announced that only the singles winners would be given the Asian Continental quota.

AITA made public the correspondence after Bopanna tweeted a video of a call-recording in which Dhupar was heard saying the ITF had accepted Bopanna and Sharan’s entry in the men’s doubles.

Dhupar was heard telling Bopanna to “keep his fingers crossed, maybe we get good news [of qualification] tomorrow.” When asked by Bopanna if his and Sharan’s entry has been accepted, Dhupar replied in an affirmative.

Bopanna’s contention was that why the AITA gave him false hopes of qualification. “This act of recording a call and making it public will not be accepted. The matter will be looked into by AITA’s managing committee and the ethics committee,” Dhupar said. “The two committees will decide if a disciplinary action is required against Bopanna.”

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