The Karnataka High Court has today put a stay order on the ban that the All India Tennis Association had imposed on Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna. The court has sent a notice to AITA about the stay order, and said that they can reply to the order. AITA had banned Bhupathi and Bopanna from representing the country till June 30, 2014 on disciplinary grounds. AITA had chosen Bhupathi to play with Leander Paes at the London Olympics but both he and Bopanna refused the pairing, following which AITA sent two doubles team - one of Bhupathi and Boppana, and the other of Paes and Vishnu Vardhan.
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