Barely a month after saying he will not play for India again, Mahesh Bhupathi has done an about turn and declared himself available for national duty.

The multiple Grand Slam winner said his burning desire to play for the country forced him to change his mind.

Bhupathi said the decision not to play for India came out of utter frustration owing to several reasons; not being paired with Sania Mirza for the mixed doubles event at the Doha Asian Games was one of them.

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"I have always wanted to play for India. It (the decision not to play for the country) was just out of frustration," Bhupahti said in Delhi on Friday.

Last month he created a flutter by announcing that he would not play for India again. The announcement took his former doubles partner, Leander Paes, and top tennis officials by surprise.

'I am not playing. I had a person-to-person chat with Anil Khanna (secretary-general of the All India Tennis Association) when he was in Mumbai. I think they respect my decision.

'It was due to a bunch of factors. I made the decision based on all circumstances around me,' he had said.

Among the factors he listed were his ambition to win the Australian Open and the feeling that the Davis Cup team could manage without him in the zonal ties.

Both these, however, were tied to a third and most important factor, his inability to renew his partnership with Paes on the ATP Tour.

'I spoke to Leander during the ATP event (in Mumbai) and he said that after winning the US Open with [Martin] Damm it would be difficult for him to break that pairing. Maybe if they had not won the US Open, things might have been different. But, fortunately or unfortunately, they won,' he had said.