Chennai : Indian tennis ace Rohan Bopanna on Friday said he plans to team up with Divij Sharan and represent the country at the men’s doubles event in next year’s Olympics but for that to happen, they need to keep their rankings high.Bopanna started the year playing alongside the left-handed Sharan and won the Pune Open title.“I started in Pune with Divij. Obviously, me and Divij wanted to try to play the whole year together but unfortunately our rankings were not high enough,” Bopanna, who has subsequently partnered Canadian Denis Shapovalov, said.“And we had to forcefully change partners in March because we were not getting into any of the 500s or Masters Series events and with Indian Wells, Miami, Monte Carlo, Barcelona, Monte Carlo, Madrid, Rome all coming up, it was for us to find different partners or just miss the entire season and not play at all.“Unfortunately at that point we had no option but to change partners wherever we can play together we are still playing together,” he added.As for playing the Tokyo Olympics with Sharan, he said, “Absolutely for the Olympics, we need to make sure our rankings are high enough to play together.“Wherever we can play together, we are still trying to. That is the key. The good part is that the ranking deadline for the Olympics is the 2020 French Open. “So we have a lot of tournaments to really work on and try to get the rankings high enough. And if our rankings are high enough we will definitely be playing together,” he added.
