Mahesh Bhupathi has slammed Indian singles players - Ramkumar Ramanathan and Sumit Nagal - for not showing any aggression against China at the zonal level of Davis cup 2018. The 43-year-old has also asked the players to try improving their singles game instead of focusing more on doubles events.

The Indian Davis Cup team suffered two shock defeats on the opening day of the second round tie against China of the Asia-Oceania Group I. In the absence of Yuki Bhambri, Ramkumar Ramanathan and Sumit Nagal lost their respective singles’ matches in straight sets as China took a 2-0 lead.

Leander Paes and Rohan Bopanna have welcomed the International Tennis Federation’s proposal of crunching the annual feature into a week-long tournament and stated that it was much needed. Paes also added that if there would be only one Davis Cup tie, all big players would participate in it.

India will again battle out in the Davis Cup Asian zone after Ramkumar Ramanathan lost the must-win singles clash against Denis Shapovalov 6-3, 7-6(1), 6-3 in Edmonton on Sunday. However, the day ended on a positive note as Yuki Bhambri won the dead rubber against Brayden Schnur 6-4, 4-6, 6-4.

Yesterday, the Indian pair of Rohan Bopanna and Purav Raja went down to Daniel Nestor and Vasek Pospisil as Canada the singles match wrap-up. However, in the first set, one of Bopanna’s shots, from the baseline, left the Canadian pair perplexed and gave India a game point to level the set at 2-2.