'Hope tennis trio resolve differences'
'Hope tennis trio resolve differences'
External Affairs Minister of India, SM Krishna on
Wednesday appealed to India's top tennis players to forget their
individual differences and play in the "interest of the nation".
Krishna,
who is also the honorary president of the All India Tennis Association,
has asked AITA President Anil Khanna to meet all the players personally
and talk to them to resolve the issue immediately.Urging all the three players - Leander Paes, Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna to forget their personal disparities, Krishna said India's interest should be respected and the players should resolve their individual differences and should never compromise the image of the country for personal issues.
Krishna stepped in a day after Union Sports Minister Ajay Maken backed out from the ongoing tennis impasse.
Maken on Tuesday tweeted that he had no intention of getting involved in the selection process for the men's doubles tennis team for the London 2012 Olympic Games.
"The Sports Ministry does not wish to be a part of the selection process of tennis. We had raised certain issues because of requests from certain iconic players. The Sports Ministry leaves it to the AITA to exercise any of the options in the best of national interests," he had tweeted.
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