Paes yet to decide on competing in 2021
4 years, 5 months ago

Paes yet to decide on competing in 2021

The Hindu  

At the start of 2020, Leander Paes had said that this year would be his last as a pro tennis player. Wimbledon being cancelled for the first time since World War II, Paes missed out to be part of the tournament in his One Last Roar season. I will make that decision down the line," Paes told Wimbledon's Facebook Live along with his former doubles partner, Mahesh Bhupathi. Paes and Bhupathi were one of the successful doubles partners in tennis history -- winning 23 ATP titles and three Grand Slams together. And that year getting to all the Grand Slam finals and winning at Wimbledon was phenomenal and a dream come true," Paes added recollecting the win at Wimbledon in 1999.

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Indian legends Leander Paes and Vijay Amritraj inducted into International Tennis Hall of Fame
5 months ago

Indian legends Leander Paes and Vijay Amritraj inducted into International Tennis Hall of Fame

India TV News  

Indian tennis greats Vijay Amritraj and Leander Paes were inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame on Saturday, July 20. Leander Paes, 51, was inducted into the Player Category as the Indian duo became the first Asians to be part of the International Tennis Hall of Fame. "Paes was inducted in the Player Category, while Amritraj and Evans were …

A 43-Year-Old With Bad Knees Became the World’s Top Doubles Player. He’s Not Done.
10 months ago

A 43-Year-Old With Bad Knees Became the World’s Top Doubles Player. He’s Not Done.

Live Mint  

I want to catch up with a sports moment that happened a few weeks ago, but got lost around here during all the Super Bowl hype, and may wind up being a genuine highlight of 2024: Rohan Bopanna winning the men’s doubles championship at the 2024 Australian Open with his partner, Matthew Ebden. The victory in Melbourne was Bopanna’s first …

Leander Paes Becomes First Asian Man to Be Nominated as a Player to International Tennis Hall of Fame
1 year, 2 months ago

Leander Paes Becomes First Asian Man to Be Nominated as a Player to International Tennis Hall of Fame

News 18  

Multiple Grand Slam winner Leander Paes on Tuesday emerged as the first Asian man to be nominated for the International Tennis Hall of Fame in the player category. Li Na, the Chinese player who won the women’s singles title at Australian Open and French Open, became the first Asian player to get nominated to the ITHF in 2019. “It means …

US Open 2023: Rohan Bopanna and Matthew Ebden Go Down Fighting in Men's Doubles Final
1 year, 3 months ago

US Open 2023: Rohan Bopanna and Matthew Ebden Go Down Fighting in Men's Doubles Final

News 18  

Rohan Bopanna and Matthew Ebden lost to the British-American pair of Rajeev Ram and Joe Salisbury in the men’s doubles final at the Louis Armstrong Stadium in New York on Friday. Ram, 39, and Salisbury, 31, also won the 2020 Australian Open crown, with Ram setting an Open era record by claiming his first Grand Slam doubles championship in his …

How many Indians have won the US Open?
1 year, 3 months ago

How many Indians have won the US Open?

The Hindu  

Rohan Bopanna created history on Thursday when he became the oldest player to advance to a Grand Slam final after him and Matthew Ebden beat the French pairing of Nicolas Mahut and Pierre Hugues Herbert 7-6, 6-2 in the US Open semifinal. Ai Sugiyama and Mahesh Bhupathi holding the trophy after winning their mixed doubles final match against Kimberly Po …

EXCLUSIVE: Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupati Could Pair up Again for Wimbledon Legends
1 year, 3 months ago

EXCLUSIVE: Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupati Could Pair up Again for Wimbledon Legends

News 18  

Arguably India’s best doubles pairing, Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi had forged an incredibly successful partnership in the years they played together. Popularly known as the Indian Express, Paes and Bhupati in an exclusive conversation with News18 spoke about pairing up again for tennis, the current state of the sport, and also explained why it will take a decade for …

Focussing on Singles Way to Go for Indian Players: Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi
1 year, 3 months ago

Focussing on Singles Way to Go for Indian Players: Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi

News 18  

Tennis legends Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi are not in favour of more Indians choosing doubles over singles, saying the highest accolades in the sport go to individual performers. Our kids at 18-19 are still trying to come out of the juniors to decide whether they are going to go to college or going pro — it is a different …

Focussing on singles way to go for Indian players: Paes and Bhupathi
1 year, 3 months ago

Focussing on singles way to go for Indian players: Paes and Bhupathi

The Hindu  

Tennis legends Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi are not in favour of more Indians choosing doubles over singles, saying the highest accolades in the sport go to individual performers. Our kids at 18-19 are still trying to come out of the juniors to decide whether they are going to go to college or going pro -- it is a different …

India has a chance to win medal in Asian Games through men’s doubles: Paes
1 year, 5 months ago

India has a chance to win medal in Asian Games through men’s doubles: Paes

The Hindu  

Tennis legend Leander Paes feels India will find it tough in singles but the country can hope to win a medal in the Asian Games with the men’s doubles team though it remains to be seen who is picked to play alongside the seasoned Rohan Bopanna. We have got quite a few players who can play,” Paes said during an …

Wimbledon 2023: Yuki Bhambri-Saketh Myneni, Rohan Bopanna-Gabriela Dabrowski crash out
1 year, 5 months ago

Wimbledon 2023: Yuki Bhambri-Saketh Myneni, Rohan Bopanna-Gabriela Dabrowski crash out

Firstpost  

Rohan Bopanna and partner Gabriela Dabrowski exited in the mixed doubles while Yuki Bhambri-Saketh Myneni bowed out of men’s doubles. London: Indian doubles pair of Yuki Bhambri and Saketh Myneni put up a valiant fight before going down to Alejandro Davidovich Fokina of Spain and Adrian Mannarino of France in a three-setter to crash out of the Wimbledon first round, …

Leander Paes Turns 50: When Rafael Nadal Called Indian as 'One Of The Best Players In The History Of Tennis'
1 year, 6 months ago

Leander Paes Turns 50: When Rafael Nadal Called Indian as 'One Of The Best Players In The History Of Tennis'

News 18  

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LEANDER PAES: Arguably India’s most successful tennis player of all time, Leander Paes celebrates his 50th birthday today, June 17. He is one of the biggest stars of doubles and one of the best player in the history of the sport,” said Nadal after he, along with Marc Lopez, led Spain back into Davis Cup World Group by …

Leander Paes turns 50: My motivation was to prove that Indians are world-beaters
1 year, 6 months ago

Leander Paes turns 50: My motivation was to prove that Indians are world-beaters

The Hindu  

In his tennis career spanning over three decades, Leander Paes has inspired many a generation. Sergi Bruguera of Spain won silver, Andre Agassi of the USA won gold and Leander Paes of India won bronze in the men’s singles tennis event at the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta. Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi of India hold aloft their trophies …

Tennis Premier League right step forward for the sport in India: Leander Paes
1 year, 6 months ago

Tennis Premier League right step forward for the sport in India: Leander Paes

The Hindu  

The last few years have been low-key for Indian tennis and Leander Paes, one of the icons of the game, believes that it would take another seven to eight years to produce a Grand Slam champion from the country. But yes, I think it will take a good seven to eight years to build champions again in the Grand Slam …

Wimbledon 2022: Sania Mirza-Mate Pavic pair reaches mixed doubles semi-final after ousting 4th seed Peers-Dabrowski
2 years, 5 months ago

Wimbledon 2022: Sania Mirza-Mate Pavic pair reaches mixed doubles semi-final after ousting 4th seed Peers-Dabrowski

India Today  

Sania Mirza and her Croatian partner Mate Pavic reached their maiden mixed doubles semi-final at Wimbledon as the 6th seeds stunned 4th seeds Gabriela Dabrowski and John Peers in a thrilling 3-set battle in the quarter-final match on Cout 3 on Monday, July 4. Sania Mirza, who has already announced that the 2022 season would be her last on the …

'We created a brotherhood': Leander Paes on his successful partnership with Mahesh Bhupathi
3 years, 3 months ago

'We created a brotherhood': Leander Paes on his successful partnership with Mahesh Bhupathi

Firstpost  

Paes and Bhupathi played together from 1994 to 2006 and reunited for their second stint from 2008 to 2011. Many years ago, Leander Paes acted on a whim when he asked Mahesh Bhupathi, ‘‘Would you like to win Wimbledon?’’ and the tennis star says what followed was a partnership that brought many trophies for India. Once the poster boys for …

Tennis great Martina Hingis reacts to Mahesh Bhupathi-Leander Paes' docuseries 'Break Point'
3 years, 3 months ago

Tennis great Martina Hingis reacts to Mahesh Bhupathi-Leander Paes' docuseries 'Break Point'

India TV News  

Former Swiss tennis ace Martina Hingis has shared her views on Mahesh Bhupathi-Leander Paes' partnership in the upcoming documentary series 'Break Point'. The series also features other tennis players such as Hingis, Sania Mirza, Rohan Bopanna among others who share their views on Bhupathi and Paes, their relationship which made them win Grand Slams on the court even when they …

Mahesh Bhupathi Says Would Like to Partner With Leander Paes If Wimbledon Invites Us - News18
3 years, 3 months ago

Mahesh Bhupathi Says Would Like to Partner With Leander Paes If Wimbledon Invites Us - News18

News 18  

When Mahesh Bhupathi and Leander Paes became the first Indian pair to win a Grand Slam at the 1999 French Open, it was a historic achievement celebrated across the country. Read: Lara Dutta Shares Poster of Docu-Drama ‘Break Point’ Based on Leander Paes, Mahesh Bhupathi Despite all the differences, Bhupathi says that the most special aspect of the duo was …

Will take a while before India wins Olympic medal in tennis, says Leander Paes
3 years, 5 months ago

Will take a while before India wins Olympic medal in tennis, says Leander Paes

India TV News  

Leander Paes, winner of multiple Grand Slam titles, has said it will take a while before India can win an Olympic medal in tennis. "It is going to be a while before we win another medal in tennis," said Paes, who won a bronze at Atlanta 1996, India's only Olympic medal in tennis. " because I feel that the competition …

Mektic and Pavic win men's doubles title, become first all-Croatian pair to triumph at Wimbledon
3 years, 5 months ago

Mektic and Pavic win men's doubles title, become first all-Croatian pair to triumph at Wimbledon

The Hindu  

Top seeds Nikola Mektic and Mate Pavic became the first all-Croatian pair to capture a Grand Slam men's doubles title when they outclassed Marcel Granollers and Horacio Zeballos 6-4, 7-6, 2-6, 7-5 at Wimbledon on Saturday. RELATED| Twenty years after Goran Ivanisevic hoisted the Challenge Cup at the All England Club after winning the men's title in a rain-delayed Monday …

Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari, Nitesh Tiwari to Bring Leander Paes, MS Bhupati's Story on Screen
3 years, 5 months ago

Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari, Nitesh Tiwari to Bring Leander Paes, MS Bhupati's Story on Screen

News 18  

Indian tennis great Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi are set to reunite for a new web series, which will narrate interesting stories and share anecdotes from the duo’s journey to stardom. Paes and Bhupathi will be seen in unique storytelling of their journey and relationship together, created by none other than the award-winning husband-wife director duo of Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari …

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