India's non-playing captain Anand Amritraj may feel otherwise, but Leander Paes defended the decision to conduct this weekend's Davis Cup tie against Spain under floodlights, saying the home players "struggle in hot and humid conditions".
'There has not been a single Indian player in the top 100 of the ATP rankings after Paes, which is not a happy situation,' said the former tennis ace.
London's Olympics offer the seemingly ageless Leander Paes the chance to outdo his father in the medals stakes and to crown his doubles tennis career.
Leander Paes of India and his Czech partner Radek Stepanek stunned American pair of Bob and Mike Bryan to clinch the Australian Open men's doubles trophy.
Leander Paes is in line for two titles at the Australian Open. The Indian ace and Russia's Elena Vesnina staged a grand recovery to enter the mixed doubles final, even as Sania Mirza and Mahesh Bhupathi bowed out after their semi-final defeat on Friday.
India's veteran tennis star Leander Paes rejected the compromise formula of the All India Tennis Association (AITA) and has decided to pull out of the 2012 Olympics in London.
Leander Paes and Radek Stepanek outplayed Daniele Bracciali and Frantisek Cermak in straight sets to storm into final of the ATP Japan Open in Tokyo.
Leander Paes and Radek Stepanek overcame a second-set lapse to defeat Andy and Jamie Murray and enter the semi-finals of the US $1,280,565 ATP Japan Open, in Tokyo, on Friday. The top seeded Indo-Czech pair defeated the British brothers 6-4, 3-6, 10-2 in 77 minutes.
The All India Tennis Association on Friday selected Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi for the men's doubles event at the London Olympics, rejecting the latter's insistence on being paired with Rohan Bopanna in the mega-event next month.
The 'Indian Express' duo of Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi will split again at the end of this season and not compete together in the season-opening Chennai Open early next year, sources in Chennai said on Thursday.
India's Leander Paes entered the semi-finals of the mixed doubles event even as Sania Mirza crashed out in the quarter-finals at the Wimbledon.
Veteran tennis star Leander Paes and his partner Martina Hingis, who won the Australian Open mixed doubles title last month, met India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Thursday.
Leander Paes and his Czech partner Radek Stepanek stormed into the semifinals of the US Open men's doubles event after getting the better of Julian Knowle of Austria and Slovakia's Filip Polasek in straight sets in New York.
Top seeds Leander Paes and Cara Black stormed into the final of Wimbledon's mixed doubles event with a straight-set victory over Stephen Huss and Virginia Ruano Pascual on Friday. The Indo-Zimbabwe pair beat their 12th seeded opponents 6-4, 6-4 in a little over 70 minutes.
Sania Mirza and Leander Paes advanced to the second round of the doubles events with their respective partners at Wimbledon
Leander Paes and Lukas Dlouhy crashed out of the ATP Rome Masters after being handed a straight-set defeat by the seventh seeded Polish-Austrian pair of Lukasz Kubot and Oliver Marach in the quarter-finals in Rome.
India's ace doubles player Leander Paes wrote to the All India Tennis Association on Monday, saying it will be unfair on him if Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna are paired as a second team for the 2012 Olympics.
The seventh seeded Indo-Czech pair lost 6-7 (3-7), 2-6 on Centre Court last evening.
The Indo-Czech pair was beaten by the Australian-Zimbabwean pair of Paul Hanley and Kevin Ullyett in the Rogers Cup.
They upset second seeds Sweden's Jonas Bjorkman and Max Mirnyi of Belarus in the quarter-finals.
Leander Paes and Nenad Zimonjic beat Wayne Arthur and Paul Hanley of 6-3, 6-4 in the semifinal.
Veteran Indian star Leander Paes and his Czech partner Radek Stepanek sailed into the Australian Open quarter-finals after a straight-set win over the unseeded pair of Yuki Bhambri and Michael Venus in the men's doubles competition in Melbourne on Sunday.
Leander Paes' hopes of creating a world record in Davis Cup were dashed when the veteran Indian and Vishnu Vardhan lost the third rubber to strong rivals Artem Sitak and Michael Venus, who kept the New Zealand alive in the Asia-Oceania Group I Davis Cup tie.
The US Open champions beat Andrei Pavel of Romania and Alexander Waske of Germany in the final 6-3, 6-7(5), 10-7.
India's former Davis Cup captain Akhtar Ali discusses the secret behind Leander Paes's success with Bikash Mohapatra/Rediff.com.
Leander Paes and Elena Vesnina will have to wait for their first Grand Slam title together having lost a closely fought Wimbledon mixed doubles final against Mike Bryan and Lisa Raymond, on Sunday.
Veteran Leander Paes was the lone Indian left in the fray at Wimbledon after reaching the mixed doubles quarter-finals on Thursday.
Indo-Czech pair shocked fourth seeds Paul Hanley of Australia and Kevin Ullyet of Zimbabwe in a match lasting four hours and 20 minutes.
Sania and Michaella Krajicek lost to Elena Dementieva and Flavia Penetta in the second round of the women's doubles at Wimbledon.
The second seeded Indo-Czech pair beat the German-Belgian combination 2-6, 7-6(6), 10-7 in the semi-finals of the US $1,619,500 hard court event.
The Indo-Czech pair beat Arnaud Clement and Chris Haggard 6-1, 7-6 (3) to claim their first title of the season
They were beaten by the Czech duo of Martin Damm and Cyril Suk in the first round of the Paris Masters.
'I would love to win five or six more Grand Slams. I would love to take part in my sixth Olympics,' the Indian ace declared at a media interaction in Bangalore on Wednesday.
The pair weathered a tough opening set to beat Safin and his compatriot 7-5, 6-3.
India's poor run at the French Open continued as Leander Paes and his Austrian partner Alexander Peya crashed out of the second round of the men's doubles event after losing to Mikhail Elgin of Russia and Uzbekistan's Denis Istomin 4-6, 1-6.
Leander Paes and Lukas Dlouhy advanced to the semi-finals of the doubles event of the ATP Brisbane International after getting a walk over from the local pair of Ashley Fisher and Stephen Huss on Thursday.
The Indo-Czech duo lost to Bob and Mike Bryan in a thriller at the Tennis Masters Cup.
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