The twosome is back with a vengeance this spring, however. In doubles, the more you play together the better you become. I think we're going to be hard to beat by the time the conference championships are here. Friendship plays a key part in their strength as a doubles team, Ullah said. Akshay and I understand each other, and we get along well.
Chemistry is absolutely essential for a doubles team in tennis.
To be a good doubles team, you must first be friends. Given their backgrounds and ethnic origins, their friendship is evidence that not all hard feelings can be passed from one generation to the next. More than 500,000 people died in conflicts in 1947, and there was more fighting in 1965 and again in 1971. One problem that continues to fester is India's claim on Kashmir, a lush and agriculturally productive state inhabited by a Muslim majority sympathetic to Pakistan. The United Nations and the United States have tried to get involved at times, but it's very complicated.