Indian tennis ace Leander Paes says he's a lot fitter now than he was seven years ago.
Leander Paes' impressive show at the ATP Masters has seen him rise four places to eighth in the latest doubles rankings.
Leander Paes and Martin Damm were ousted in the first round at the Dubai Open.
The Indo-Belgian pair lost 4-6, 4-6 to Leos Friedl and Mikhail Youzhny in the men's doubles first round.
Both the Indian aces fell at the first hurdle in different tournaments on the ATP Tour.
They were beaten by Frederic Niemeyer of Canada and Glenn Weiner of the US in the first round at Wimbledon.
Leander Paes and Martin Damm have been drawn to take on Tomas Cibulec and David Skoch in the first round of the doubles event at the Chennai Open.
The Indo-Serbian pair shocked fourth seeds Michael Llodra and Fabrice Santoro in the semi-finals of the Madrid Masters on Saturday.
Paes and Nenad Zimonjic entered the semi-finals of the Madrid Masters beating Mahesh Bhupathi and Martin Damm on Friday.
Top seeds Mahesh Bhupathi and Max Mirnyi got a walkover in the semi-final when their opponents Cyril Suk and Martin Damm withdrew.
Fifth seeds Leander Paes and Nenad Zimonjic of Serbia entered the semi-finals of the Monte Carlo Masters, beating the Czech pair of Martin Damm and Radek Stepanek.
Their exit gave the Bryan twins, Mike and Bob, the year-end world No. 1 ranking.
The top seeds will take on seventh seeds Wayne Arthurs and Paul Hanley of Australia.
The top seeds will take on Leander Paes and David Rikl.
Argentina came back from the brink to snatch a thrilling 2-1 victory over the Czech Republic in Saturday's final and capture the World Team Cup for the third time.
Leander Paes, who along with his Czech partner Martin Damm bowed out in the semi-finals of the ATP Masters in Shanghai, is still in 12th place with 3285 points.
The Indo-Czech pair beat Arnaud Clement and Chris Haggard 6-1, 7-6 (3) to claim their first title of the season
The second seeds beat top seeds Mark Knowles and Daniel Nestor in the final.
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.
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Leander Paes and Radek Stepanek upset defending champions Bob and Mike Bryan to move into the men's doubles final of the US Open on Thursday. The pair, seeded fourth, bested the top seeded American dup 3-6, 6-3, 6-4.
Leander Paes has experimented with 100 different players.
Mahesh Bhupathi and Radek Stepanek beat Leander Paes-Martin Damm to reach Monte Carlo quarterfinals
'He will always be an enigma.' 'But it's because of players like him that some people still watch doubles matches.'
An inspired performance from Douglas Costa helped Brazil to a 3-0 win over Peru on Tuesday and lifted them into third place in the South American qualifying group for the 2018 World Cup in Russia.
