Whenever the Covid-19-enfroced lockdown ends, tennis legend Leander Paes, who was to retire at the end of the ongoing season after an eventful career, will reassess his options looking at several factors. But one of the most important issues for him would be “emotional and mental fitness, and happiness” – and, of course, his “own desires”. Then, of course, he will have to deal emotionally with the two most tempting options: appearing in his eighth consecutive Olympic Games, and one more tie of the Davis Cup – the elixir of his tennis career. These two factors will do their best to ‘blackmail’ Paes (if that was possible) into prolonging his career just a little more. Nothing is final, though.