Aisam-ul-Haq Achieves Career-best Number 8 Ranking
Pakistani tennis star, Aisam ul Haq Qureshi has achieved his career best ranking of Number 8 on ATP World Ranking List of Doubles Players.
Aisam is now the Number 2 Ranked Asian on the list after India's Mahesh Bhupati. Rohan Bopanna of India is ranked Number 10 and Leander Paes of India has gone down to Number 11.
Aisam-ul-Haq and his doubles partner India's Raohan Bopanna went down fighting to top-ranked American pair of Bob and Mike Bryan in the quarterfinals of the men's doubles at the recently concluded French Open.
The ‘Indo-Pak Express’, as Qureshi and Bopanna are also known, will now set their sights on Wimbledon which starts June 20, and Qureshi believes the duo’s French Open experience is the ideal preparation.
“We are taking one step at a time. We will do better at the French Open next year. However, climbing two places in the ATP doubles rankings before Wimbledon is a huge achievement. It has given us more confidence which we badly needed.”
