Indian tennis legend Leander Paes says he wishes to exit from the game just like global icons Pele and Mohammad Ali who bid adieu to their respective sports when they were at the pinnacle of their careers.
They beat the Indo-Belarusian pair of Mahesh Bhupathi and Max Mirnyi to make the grade at the French Open.
Rohan Bopanna often gets baffled to find the love of playing Davis Cup diminishing with passage of time.
Fourth seeds Leander Paes and Lukas Dlouhy entered the semi-finals of the men's doubles at the US Open, beating seventh seeds Wesley Moodie of South Africa and Dick Normam of Belgium 6-3, 5-7, 6-4 on Tuesday.
Indian ace Leander Paes and his Czech partner Lukas Dlouhy pulled off a hard-fought victory over the Romanian pair of Victor Hanescu and Gabriel Trifu to enter the second round of the US Open men's doubles at Flushing Meadows on Tuesday night. The fourth seeds won 7-6(13/11), 7-6(7/4) after an hour and 47 minutes.
Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi on Wednesday inched closer to their first joint Olympic medal by reaching the quarterfinals of the men's doubles event.
Indo-Czech pair beat Jonas Bjorkman and Tood Woodbridge in the in the Nasdaq-100 Open.
Doubles world No. 3 Leander Paes will take to the court in Chennai Open with a new partner -- Edouard Roger-Vasselin of France -- as he prepares to defend his title for the third time in a row later this month.
The ninth seeded Indo-Czech pair lost 6-7(4), 6-4, 1-6, 6-4, 6-8 to the second seeded Canadian-Serb duo, which will play Swedish veteran Jonas Bjorkman and Kevin Ullyett of Zimbabwe in Saturday's men's doubles final at Wimbledon. The eighth seeds upset top seeds Bob and Mike Bryan of the United States 7-6 (7-3), 5-7, 7-6 (7-5), 7-6 (11-9) in the first semi-final, which was interrupted by rain, on Thursday.
Leander Paes and Lukas Dlouhy were down a set at 7-6 (7-4), 4-6, 6-1, 3-3 as they battled it out in fading light against Canada's Daniel Nestor and Serb Nenad Zimonjic for a place in the final of the men's doubles at Wimbledon on Thursday night.
In a big setback to the Indian Davis Cup team, country's leading singles player Yuki Bhambri was, on Sunday, ruled out of the upcoming tie against Uzbekistan due to a knee injury.
Reader Rohit Kumar spotted Indian tennis star Leander Paes in Bangalore.
Leander Paes and Tommy Robredo held their nerves in the super-tie breaker to stun third seed Israeli duo of Jonathan Erlich and Andy Ram and book a quarterfinal berth in the Euro 2,270,000 Hamburg ATP Master Series event on Wednesday night.
It was a day of mixed fortunes for India at the French Open on Friday. Leander Paes sailed into pre-quarter-finals of the men's doubles, but Sania Mirza crashed out of the corresponding event for women. Sania and Taipei's Chia-Jung Chuang, seeded 14th, were knocked out 6-4, 6-7(5), 3-6 by the unseeded Polish pair of Agnieszka and Urszula Radwanska. Third seeds Paes and Lukas Dlouhy defeated James Cerretani and Sergiy Stakhovsky 4-6, 6-3, 6-2.
Practising his strokes for over seven million times has given him an unforgettable muscle memory and an uncompromising diet has kept his enviable fitness intact in an astonishing 25-year long career but Leander Paes is not training the way he used to train 20 years ago. The 43-year-old has just finished another season in his glorious career and he is not finished yet. Rather, he has set himself a new target - taking his Grand Slam tally to 20. Passion for the game and a knack for creating history has kept him going but it also involves pain of hard work that may become difficult to sustain year after year.
Leander Paes and his Australian partner Paul Hanley got a first-round bye in the Euro 888,000 Open Sabadell Atlantico tennis tournament in Barcelona. The sixth seeds will take on the winners of the match between the Argentine-Uruguayan pair of Juan Ignacio Chela and Pablo Cuevas and Spanish wildcards Guillermo Alcaide and Albert Montanes in the second round of the clay court event.
Leander Paes may have just played his last Olympics with a record seventh straight appearance but Sania Mirza has insisted to never write him off.
The cricketing extravaganza became a business opportunity for everyone, from five-star hotels to cafes to street vendors across the country on Sunday.
India's feuding doubles pair Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi have agreed to set aside their differences and team up for the Beijing Olympics. They will play together in two events before and after Wimbledon, and then train together under the supervision of Rick Leach, Paes's coach, and Bhupathi's trainer Scott Davidoff.
Rohan Bopanna and Rajeev Ram ousted fifth seeds Leander Paes and Paul Hanley in the second round of the Australian Open.
The Indo-Czech duo advanced after fifth seeds Paul Hanley and Kevin Ullyet withdrew while trailing 3-5 in the first set.
Leander Paes and Lukas Dlouhy set up a quarter-final clash with Mahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles after a straight-set win over Roger Federer and Stainslas Wawrinka in the second round of ATP Rogers Masters in Toronto on Thursday night. The seventh seeded Indo-Czech pair needed less than an hour to beat their unseeded Swiss opponents 6-4, 6-4.
AITA claimed to have worked out a compromise formula to resolve the selection crisis for the Olympics by deciding to send two men's doubles teams for the event, pairing Leander Paes with a lower-ranked Vishnu Vardhan.
Leander Paes got the better of compatriot Mahesh Bhupathi in a thrilling mixed doubles encounter to enter the third round at the Australian Open, in Melbourne, on Monday. He and Daniela Hantuchova beat eighth seeds Bhupathi and Elena Vesnina 6-0, 2-6, 10-6.
They beat Jeremy Chardy and Jonathan Eysseric of France 7-6 (4), 7-6 (2) to advance into the second round of the French Open.
Leander Paes and Radek Stepanek brushed aside the challenge of Colin Ebelthite and John Peers in straight sets to progress to the second round of the men's doubles event of the Wimbledon championships on Thursday.
The stormy relationship between Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi will not stop the multiple grand slam winners playing together in the Asian Games men's tennis doubles.
Vishnu Vardhan won his second Challenger level title of the season with Japanese partner Toshihide Matsui but four other Indians, including Leander Paes, tumbled out of various ATP events across the globe.
The doubles ace said he wants to team with his former partner in other events too to prepare for the Athens Olympics.
Indian Davis Cup captain Leander Paes, who has been invited for the Olympic torch relay, said he has not yet made up his mind in this regard but feels boycotting the event for political reasons is not right.
Reader Hemant sent us these pictures from the USA.
The Indian Davis Cup captain feels the two-month injury lay-off will not hamper his performance in the Asia-Oceania zone match from March 4 to 6.
The top seeded Indo-Czech pair squandered a one-set lead and two match-points while going down to Jeff Coetzee and Rogier Wassen.
While every other team practises their hardest in the few hours left for the Rio Olympics 2016, the Indian contingent was left looking for rooms, extra pair of jerseys and assembling chairs.
The US Open champions beat Andy Ram and Jonathan Erlich 6-4, 7-6(6) at the Shanghai Masters.
Leander Paes kept the Indian challenge alive in the mixed doubles event of the French Open by moving to the second round along with partner Jelena Jankovic.
Top seed Indian men's doubles pair of Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi have been handed out an easy draw but Rohan Bopanna and Somdev Devvarman were not as lucky and the duo will have to toil hard when the Commonwealth Games gets underway on Sunday.
