Mumbai: Former Davis Cup captain of India Mahesh Bhupathi has said on Thursday that he is deeply saddened by the way the National Federation sacked him, but given the nature of the association's attitude with the players over the last two decades, it is shocking Did not matter. Bhupathi was dismissed from the post of captain by the All India Tennis Association (AITA) after refusing to travel to Pakistan for the Davis Cup due to security concerns.

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The match will now begin in Noor Sultan of Kazakhstan from Friday. Referring to the incident here, Bhupathi said, 'I am still in touch with the players on a daily basis. I was saddened by the way the Federation adopted me. When they wanted to make me captain they reached Hyderabad to meet me. ' He said, 'I have no problem with this if they think that the time has come for me to move, but under courtesy, they could have made at least one call, see, we understand that now is the time to bring someone new. has come.

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He said that I would respect it, but I did not get any kind of call. After inaugurating the new tennis court here, Bhupathi said, "It was not surprising to see the way the federation has been behaving in the last 20 years, not just me, but everyone in Indian tennis." But somewhere it causes disappointment. '

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