We are the underdogs: Vijay Amritraj

BANGALORE, MAY 14. Legendary tennis player Vijay Amritraj has said India will be the underdogs against the United States in the Davis Cup tie in September. He however, said that India has a chance of winning it.

``If we had played at home, I would give it a 50-50 chance. Sine we are playing away, I would say, we are the underdogs. My feeling is that the end result will be 3-2. So it could go either way,'' he told newspersons on Sunday after he was felicitated by the Karnataka State Lawn Tennis Association (KSLTA) on his appointment as UN ambassador of peace.

The Indian Olympic Association (IOA), the All India Tennis Association (AITA) and the KSLTA had approached him for getting the dates of the World doubles championship shifted, since it coincides with the Afro-Asian Games.

He hoped that the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), the governing body of the men's tennis, would be in a position to shift the dates of the World doubles championship, scheduled between November five and 11, as it was clashing with the inaugural Afro-Asian Games in New Delhi he added. - UNI

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