NEW DELHI: Doubles specialist Rohan Bopanna on Monday said he has no security concerns about playing Davis Cup in Pakistan, where he has always enjoyed “great hospitality”.
No Indian Davis Cup squad has travelled to Pakistan since March 1964 and Bopanna will be in the Indian team which will compete in Islamabad in September for the Asia/Oceania Group I tie, PTI reports.
Bopanna and Divij Sharan, country’s best two doubles players on rankings, will be natural choice for the doubles rubber.
“I am looking forward to the Davis Cup tie in Pakistan. I have spoken to Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi, he is a very good friend of mine and he said it will be fine and I have been there a few times, I always found great hospitality from Pakistan. So I have no concerns about it,” PTI quotes Bopanna as having said on the sidelines of a Sports Conclave organised by Indian Oil Corporation (IOC).
The 39-year-old from Bengaluru had finished a runner-up at the US Open with Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi in 2010 (the doubles pair were dubbed the Indo-Pak Express).
