Bopanna, Bhupathi draw Mirnyi-Bury

Nieminen test for wildcard Somdev

The seventh-seeded Indian duo of Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna will open their campaign against Max Mirnyi and Alexander Bury of Belarus in the Olympic men’s doubles tennis event to be held at Wimbledon from Saturday.

Seasoned pro Leander Paes and his unfancied partner Vishnu Vardhan will take on Julien jean Rojer and Robin Haase of the Netherlands in their men’s doubles opening round as per the draw announced on Thursday.

In women’s doubles, Sania Mirza and her partner Rushmi Chakravarthi clash with the Taipei duo of Su Wei Hsieh and Chia-Jung Chuang in the opening round.
Somdev Devvarman, who got a wild card, will launch his campaign against Jarkko Nieminen of Finland in the men’s singles opening round competition.

Top-seeded Roger Federer could meet Murray in the final in a repeat of Wimbledon earlier this month, after the pair were drawn on opposite sides of the competition. Third seed Murray will take on Federer's fellow-Swiss Stanislas Wawrinka in his opening match.

Federer takes on Falla

Federer, the top seed and world number one, will play Colombia's Alejandro Falla while Serbia's Novak Djokovic, seeded two, will face Italy's Fabio Fognini.
Women's top seed Belarusian Victoria Azarenka will play Romanian world number 79 Irina-Camelia Begu in the first round when the competition kicks off later this week.  America's Serena Williams, fresh from her fifth Wimbledon title, takes on former world number one Jelena Jankovic of Serbia.

Neither of Beijing's singles gold medallists will be returning to defend their titles, after Spain's Rafael Nadal was forced to pull out through injury and Russia's Elena Dementieva retired.  Top seeded mens duo Mike and Bob Bryan will play Brazil's Thomaz Bellucci and Andre Sa, and could face Beijing doubles gold medallists Federer and Wawrinka in the quarter finals.  In the women's doubles, top seeded American's Liezel Huber and Lisa Raymond get a pass to the second round after the withdrawal of Ukraine's Alona and Kateryna Bondarenko due to injury.

Unseeded defending gold medallists Venus and Serena Williams will take on Romania's Sorana Cirstea and Simona Halep.