Veteran tennis star Leander Paes was on Monday retained in the Indian Davis Cup team for next month’s Asia/Oceania Zone tie against Uzbekistan.

The tie, which will be India’s first with Mahesh Bhupathi as the non-playing captain, will also see the return of Rohan Bopanna.

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Bopanna had been ignored for last month’s tie against New Zealand, which India had won.

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He did extremely well at the just-concluded Dubai ATP 500 event, where he ended runner-up with partner Marcin Matkowski. En route the summit clash, he also got the better of Paes and his partner Gracia Gulliermo-Lopez in the semifinals.

India will go in with two specialist singles players in Yuki Bhambri and Ramkumar Ramnathan.