The love of playing Davis Cup is missing, now it's like just another tournament for players: Bopanna
Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi while playing for the country, Rohan Bopanna often gets baffled to find the love of playing Davis Cup diminishing with passage of time. Bopanna does not find the current lot as passionate about playing the David Cup compared to players from past generations.
«It has become too mechanical to just come, play and leave,» says Bopanna who is set to quit Davis Cup this coming Sunday.
A bit agitated, he feels Davis Cup has become just another tournament for the current generation of players.
On the other side, Davis Cup is one tournament where it is believed across the globe that rankings won't matter every time.
Even the tiny tennis nations sometimes succeed in flooring the behemoths.
And that belief came from the team unity, proper planning and passionate support coming from the bench and the teammates who would shout their hearts out to support the player on the court from the sidelines.
«There used to be fantastic team atmosphere, which has been kind of lost in the last couple of years. And we need to bring that back,» Bopanna told PTI in an interview.
«Davis Cup is all about team camaraderie, spending time with the team, being together, everybody coming together.
And I think that is a little missing link. We need to bring it back to have a successful team.»
Bopanna, who made his debut in 2002, spoke his mind on the current state of affairs in the side but even he does not know how the team has reached this point.
He struggles to find an appropriate answer but tries to make sense of the situation.
«There's no particular reason why it's happened.
