Ace Tennis player Leander Paes poses for photographs during the launch of smart e-cycles, in Kolkata.
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Fire That Never Died
Listen all ye millennials, when the forebears of your world-beating Rohit, Virat and Jasprit were a bunch mostly blundering about in bright blue, there was Leander—sole bearer of...
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Tennis star Leander Paes acknowledges the crowd at a felicitation programme organised for him after he played his last match on the Indian soil, at the ATP Challenger tour's Bengal...
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Tennis star Leander Paes poses with former athletes during a felicitation event organised for him after he played his last match on the Indian soil, at the ATP Challenger tour's Be...
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Runners up India's Leander Paes (L) and Australia's Matthew Ebden during the doubles final match at ATP Challenger tour Bengaluru Open 2020, at Karnataka State Lawn Tennis Associat...
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India's Leander Paes and Australia's Matthew Ebden in action against Indian doubles pair Purva Raja (unseen) and Ramkumar Ramnathan (unseen) during the doubles final match at ATP ...
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Winner Purva Raja (R) and his partner Ramkumar Ramnathan (2R) pose with runner up- India's Leander Paes (2L) and Australia's Matthew Ebden (L) during the doubles final match at ATP...
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Former tennis player Leander Paes at the launch event of Australian Open 2020 in Mumbai.
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Leander Paes-Mahesh Bhupathi, Tennis
Paes, who famously clinched the 1996 Olympics bronze, teamed with Bhupathi to set many records in doubles. They reached their peak in doubles rankings in 1999—Bhupathi in April a...
India's Leander Paes, right, and Purav Raja celebrate a point win against Britain's Jamie Murray and Brazil's Bruno Soares during their doubles match at the Australian Open tennis ...
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New Check
This is a shock poor Leander Paes could have done without. A court petition for compensation by estranged wife Rhea Pillai was said to be a hefty Rs 10 lakh. No, says Rhea’s lawy...
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A Grab At A Time
It’s a stalemate. Rhea Pillai, profitably divorced from Sanjay Dutt, now wants a queen’s ransom from estranged husband Leander Paes—house, money, child’s custody.... But ...
Indian team players celebrate after their victory over New Zealand in a Davis Cup tennis match, in Pune.
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Indian non-playing Davis cup captain Anand Amritraj, tennis players Leander Paes, Ramkumar Ramanathan, Vishnu Vardhan and Yuki Bhambri during the inaugural ceremony of the Davis cu...
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Indian tennis players Leander Paes and Ramkumar Ramnathani during the inaugural ceremony of the Davis cup at Balewadi stadium, in Pune.
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Switzerland's Martina Hingis hits a backhand as partner India's Leander Paes watches during their mixed doubles match against Croatia's Nikola Mektic and Brian Baker of the United ...
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India's tennis player Leander Paes at a promotional event of ATP Chennai Open 2017, in Chennai.
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India's Leander Paes with other players during a practice session for the ATP Chennai Open 2017, in Chennai.
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Leander Paes seen here in action during a Davis Cup match in New Delhi.
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Leander Paes during the Davis Cup here in New Delhi.
Leander Paes had announced that 2020 would be his last season as a professional player but his plan to bid adieu on a high with a record eight appearance at the Olympics was stalled by the coronavirus pandemic
The video, which the legendary Paes shared on his Twitter handle, has him and Mahesh volleying a tennis ball on the wall with a frying pan with the iconic song 'Yeh Dosti Hum Na Chhodenge' from the movie 'Sholay' playing the background
After playing his 'last match' on home soil in the final of Bengaluru Open on Saturday, Leander Paes, possibly India's greatest tennis player, shared his story...
A number of top players and captain Mahesh Bhupathi had refused to play in the Pakistan capital due to security concerns but Leander Paes, along with Saketh Myneni and Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan, were available
The unavailability of several India's regular players for the Davis Cup tie against Pakistan in Islamabad in November, including Mahesh Bhupathi, means that Leander Paes might feature as the playing captain in the squad.
Rohan Bopanna and Denis Shapovalov knocked out French pair Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut of the US Open with a 6-3, 6-1 win on Friday (August 30).
Even after a 30-year Davis Cup career, Leander Paes refuses to stop. The 47-year-old attributes his success to a diet of hard work, discipline and simplicity