Leander Paes is to make his Bollywood debut and has already completed a month's shooting for his first film.
They went out of the title race at Rome Masters series following their loss to the sixth-seed pair of Fabrice Santoro and Ninad Zimonjic.
The defending champions lost to Serbian Nenad Zimonjic and Russian Elena Bovina 6-1 7-6 in 69 minutes.
Leander Paes and the Czech Republic's Lukas Dlouhy stumbled yet again in the second round, crashing out of the Cincinnati Masters, following a straight-set defeat to Mardy Fish and Mark Knowles. Seeded third, they lost 3-6, 2-6 to the unseeded American-Bahamas pair.
The fourth seeds beat Italian pair of Simone Bolelli and Flavio Cipolla 6-4, 6-1 in the first round.
Winning the Grand Slam title on physically demanding red clay is 'special' says Indian tennis ace Leander Paes, who clinched his third French Open men's doubles trophy with Czech partner Lukas Dlouhy.
The veteran Indian has decided to go with the choice of his partner Martin Damm of the Czech Republic to play in the Doha Open.
Beginning their partnership on a fantastic note, Leander Paes and Jurgen Melzer clinched the Shanghai Masters title with a 7-5, 4-6, 10-5 victory over Poles Mariusz Fyrstenberg and Marcin Matkowski in the final in Shanghai on Sunday.
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.
India's Leander Paes and Purav Raja sailed into the men's doubles second round in the duo's first outing at a Grand Slam but Sania Mirza and Rohan Bopanna crashed out of their respective events in the US Open.
India's tennis campaign at the London Olympics met with a disappointing end, as Leander Paes and Sania Mirza were knocked out in the mixed doubles quarter-finals on Saturday. Paes-Sania lost 5-7, 6-7(5) to the top seeded pair of Max Mirnyi and Victoria Azarenka of Belarus. The match was spread over two days after bad light halted play on Friday, with the Belarus pair leading 7-5, 3-2.
Leander Paes has pulled out of the Asian Hopman Cup due to finger injury.
The Indian ace and Samantha Stosur later crashed out of the mixed doubles, losing in the first round.
The third-seeded Indo-Kiwi combination prevailed 6-4, 5-7, 14-12 over the Australian-Swede combine of Matthew Ebden and Robert Lindsted, in the quarter-finals after saving three match points.
Fifth seeds Leander Paes and Radek Stepanek were eliminated from the ATP Cincinnati Masters following their defeat to Vasek Pospisil and Jack Sock, in Cincinnati on Wednesday.
Leander Paes and Nenad Zimonjic beat Wayne Arthur and Paul Hanley of 6-3, 6-4 in the semifinal.
Veteran Indian tennis star Leander Paes and his Czech partner Radek Stepanek have been forced to exit the Australian Open after losing their men's doubles quarterfinals on Wednesday at Melbourne Park.
In a new twist to the crisis in Indian tennis, Somdev Devvarman, who is recovering from a shoulder injury, has said he is fit to partner Leander Paes in the Olympics if asked by the All India Tennis Association (AITA).
They meet Mark Knowles-Daniel Nestor in the quarters of the ATP Tennis Masters.
Leander Paes entered the second round, while Sania Mirza bowed out of the mixed doubles at the French Open.
Veteran Indian tennis star Leander Paes today said that the dramatic victory he pulled off along with partner Rohan Bopanna against formidable Serbians was the best comeback effort of his Davis Cup career.
Leander Paes and Radek Stepanek fought their way to the semi-finals of the ATP Miami Masters with a 7-6(6), 6-4 win over Spaniards David Marrero and Fernando Verdasco.
It will be the second consecutive final for Paes and Angel, who also reached the final at Montrrey Challenger last week, ending runners-up to Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan and Marcelo Arevalo.
Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi had to strain their sinews before the Indian duo, along with their respective partners, cleared the opening round hurdle in the men's doubles event of the Miami Masters.
The seventh seeds overcame the Czech pair of Lukas Dlouhy and Pavel Vizner 7-5, 6-3
Leander Paes won his eighth Grand Slam men's doubles title when he and Radek Stepanek of the Czech Rep[ublic beat the second seeded Austria-Brazil pairing of Alexander Peya and Bruno Soares in the US Open men's doubles final 6-1, 6-3 on Sunday.
The Indo-Czech pair lost 3-6, 6-2, 6-10 to Sweden's Simon Aspelin and Julian Knowle of Austria.
Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi easily advanced to the quarter-finals of the US $ 2,615,000 Cincinnati Masters tournaments along with their respective partners. The sixth seeded pair of Paes and Lukas Dlouhy of the Czech Republic defeated Ivo Karlovic of Croatia and Rogier Wassen of Netherlands 6-4, 6-2 in the second round. Meanwhile, Bhupathi and his Bahamian partner Mark Knowles got a walkover from Czech pair Tomas Berdych and Radek Stepanek.
India's tennis ace Leander Paes has been elected as one of the seven vice-presidents of Bengal Tennis Association (BTA). The Kolkata ace, who now lives in Mumbai, was not present at the Annual General Meeting on Saturday but has accepted the new role, which was offered to him sometime back.
The defending champions will take on Nenad Zimonjic of Serbia and Elena Bovina of Russia in the mixed doubles final.
For veteran Leander Paes, the team of rookies fighting it out against South Korea are already 'winners', simply because they resisted the 'temptation' of joining the rebels.
The Indo-Serbian duo of third seeds Leander Paes and Janko Tipsarevic kept alive chances of a title showdown with the Indian pair of Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna after advancing to the semi-finals of the doubles event at the Aircel Chennai Open 2012 in Chennai on Friday.
Leander Paes is setting his eyes on nothing less than the gold medal at the upcoming Beijing Games.
The doubles ace said that Rohan Bopanna, Prakash Amritraj and he will not play against Japan if Leander Paes is continued as captain.
Paes and Black, who won the US Open mixed doubles title last year, were clearly the better pair in a rare match and also took advantage of the unforced errors committed by their opponents.
The Indian tennis ace says he wants 'something better than the bronze' he won at Sydney, at the Athens Games.
Tennis ace Leander Paes on Monday assured himself of a berth in the London Olympics by retaining his position in the top-10 in the latest ATP doubles rankings, but Sania Mirza's fate continued to hang in balance.
The crisis that has rocked Indian tennis deepened on Monday, with Rohan Bopanna officially snubbing the All India Tennis Association's offer to pair with Leander Paes in the men's doubles at the London Olympics.
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