Leander Paes and Martina Hingis thrashed Austrian-Hungarian fifth seeds Alexander Peya and Timea Babos 6-1, 6-1 to win the mixed doubles title at Wimbledon.
The Indian Davis Cup captain slammed Sania Mirza's decision to pull out of Indian events to avoid controversies.
Leander Paes and his partner Lukas Dlouhy entered the quarterfinals of the euro 2,750,000 Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters in Monaco, defeating unseeded Spaniard duo of Albert Montanes and Tommy Robredo in a match tie-breaker.
Leander Paes teamed up with David Rikl to humble Mario Ancic and Ivan Ljubicic in straight sets in the opening round of the US Open.
Veteran Leander Paes' 23rd appearance at the Wimbledon Championships ended with a first-round defeat in a gruelling five-setter against Julian Knowle and Philipp Oswald, in the men's doubles.
Indian veterans Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi, along with their respective partners, advanced to the third round of the Wimbledon mixed doubles event after notching up straight-set second-round wins in London.
Fourth seeds Leander Paes and Radek Stepanek crashed out of the Wimbledon Championships as they were stunned by Ivan Dodig and Marcelo Melo in a grueling weather-hit five-setter.
Leander Paes and his Czech partner Radek Stepanek suffered their first defeat at the year-end ATP World Tour finals, losing their second Group B match to David Marrero and Fernando Verdasco at the O2 Arena in London on Wednesday.
Leander Paes' new year and new partnership with Australian Paul Hanley began on a sour when they were beaten by Benjamin Becker and Oliver Marach in the opening round of the Next Generation Adelaide International in Adelaide on Wednesday.
Leander Paes advanced in men's doubles but it was curtains for Sania Mirza who crashed out of the women's singles event after a straight-set loss to 12th seed Italian Flavia Pennetta in the second round of the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells.
Paes and Martin Damm beat Lukas Dlouhy and Pavel Vizner of the Czech Republic in the second round of the Cincinnati Open.
The defeat against Chinese Taipei put India out of the tennis team event at the Asian Games.
Watching India and Australia compete in the series-deciding fifth Test was some experience for the 54-year-old American tennis legend.
Leander Paes and his American partner Scott Lipsky advanced to the finals of ATP Heiniken Open in Auckland, New Zealand but it was curtains for Mahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles at the Sydney International after they lost in the doubles semi-finals on Friday.
Mahesh Bhupathi was the lone Indian surviving in the doubles event of the US$ 450,000 ATP Chennai Open along with his Bahamian partner Mark Knowles as second seed duo of Leander Paes and Lukas Dlouhy were shocked in the first round in Chennai on Thursday. The top seeded pair of Bhupathi and Knowles advanced to the quarter-finals after a hard fought 7-6(3), 7-6(8) win over wild card entrants Somdev Devvarman and Prakash Amritraj.
Bhupathi and partner Max Mirnyi advanced to the second round in the ATP Tennis Masters while Paes and Divid Rikl lost in the first.
They were a top pair on court and off it their differences had reached epic proportions but after so many years, Leander Paes finds it irrelevant to dissect what went wrong between him and his friend-turned-foe Mahesh Bhupathi.
The sixth seeds went down in straight sets in the second round of the French Open mixed doubles.\n\n
Ace tennis star Sania Mirza, on Wednesday, backed the decision of experienced duo of Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi to part ways ahead of 2012 London Olympics.
Nine years after his twin crowns at Wimbledon, Leander Paes is hoping history to repeat itself at the US Open.
India's Leander Paes and his Czech partner, Lukas Dlouhy, advance into the next round of the US Open.
Leander Paes crashed out of the men's doubles, while Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna made first round exits from the mixed doubles to sum up a disappointing day for India at the French Open.
Leander Paes and Martina Hingis won their mixed doubles opener at the Australian Open tennis tournament on Sunday.
The AITA selection committee, on Tuesday, decided to keep veteran Leander Paes in the five-member playing squad for the upcoming Davis Cup tie against Croatia, making Divij Sharan the reserve member.
Leander Paes enjoyed an all-win outing to enter the quarter-finals of the men's and mixed doubles at the US Open. However, it was a mixed day for Sania Mirza in the season's last Grand Slam in New York.
India's Davis Cup captain Leander Paes denied having said that partnering Mahesh Bhupathi was the "worst decision" of his career and that it would be "utterly silly" to make a comment like that. "The context of the answer was that I regret having slowed down my singles career," Paes told reporters in New Delhi on Friday, after Rohan Bopanna and Prakash Amritraj had scripted heroic five-sets win to give India a 2-0 lead on the first day of the Davis Cup tie against Japan.
Veteran Indian tennis player Leander Paes on Thursday said his fitness is still good enough to carry him into Brazil Olympic Games in 2016.
Leander Paes made a first-round exit from the $ 1,410,000 Barclay Dubai Tennis Championships but Indian hopes were kept alive by Rohan Bopanna who stormed into the doubles quarterfinals of the hard court event.
No Indian athlete since Independence has won multiple medals at a single Games.
'The best bet for Indian tennis to win a medal at the Olympics would be having Leander and Bopanna together.' Bikash Mohapatra/Rediff.com reveals how the AITA convinced Rohan Bopanna to partner Leander Paes in Rio,
India's non-playing captain Leander Paes on Friday took Prakash Amritraj to task for claiming to the media that he was fully fit for Friday's Davis Cup singles tie against Uzbekistan.
Leander Paes was felicitated by the Bengal Tennis Association on Monday and said he would love to win more Grand Slams.
Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi took contrasting routes to the doubles quarter-finals in the Internazionali BNL D'Italia tennis tournament in Rome on Thursday. Third seeds Paes and his Czech partner Lukas Dlouhy swamped Ivo Karlovic and Dusan Vemic 6-1, 6-1, while fourth seeded Bhupathi and his Bahamian teammate Mark Knowles survived some torrid moments before beating unheralded Simon Bolelli and Andreas Seppi 7-6(5), 2-6, 10-3.
India's Davis Cup Captain Mahesh Bhupathi picked Rohan Bopanna for the Davis Cup match against Uzbekistan in Bengaluru.
They were beaten by the Czech duo of Martin Damm and Cyril Suk in the first round of the Paris Masters.
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.
Paes and Damm were playing their first match in the hard court tournament after getting a bye in the first round and a walkover in the second.
Former partners Mahesh Bhupathi and Leander Paes started off their respective doubles campaigns on a winning note at the Legg Mason Classic.
Third seeds Leander Paes and Jurgen Melzer of Austria battled their way into the semi-finals of the Shanghai Masters, beating Rohan Bopanna and Aisam-ul-haq Qureshi on Friday. Paes-Melzer lost the first set, but fought back brilliantly against the younger Indo-Pak combination to win the quarter-final 6-7(6), 7-6(6), 10-4.
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