They won the Monte Carlo Masters doubles at Monaco after their third seeded opponents Bob and Mike Bryan conceded a walk-over in the final.
Leander Paes and Daniel Nestor put up a stiff resistance before losing the semi-final of the Aegon Championships to the team of Nenad Zimonjic and Marcin Matkowski in Birmingham.
Soon after he won his historic US Open title, Paes said more than technique it is his never-say-die spirit that has got him success.
Leander Paes and his Canadian partner Dainel Nestor advanced to the second round of the men's doubles at Wimbledon, beating the Serbian pair of Victor Troicki and Dusan Lajovic 6-3, 6-4, 7-5 after an hour and 42 minutes on Wednesday.
The seventh seeded Indo-Swiss pair turned back the clock to serve past third seeds Daniel Nestor and Kristina Mladenovic 6-4, 6-3 in 62 minutes at the Rod Laver Arena.
Third seeds Leander Paes and Andre Begemann secured a close 4-6,6-4,10-8 win over Oleksandr Nedovyesov of Kazakhstan and Denys Molchanov of Ukraine to enter the semifinals of the doubles event at the ninth edition of the Tashkent ATP Challenger at the Olympic Tennis School in Tashkent. Paes and Begemann came back from being 2-4 down in the Match tiebreak to wrap the issue after Leander's splendid court craft to level scores.
Paes and Nenad Zimonjic entered the semi-finals of the Madrid Masters beating Mahesh Bhupathi and Martin Damm on Friday.
A round-up of results of Indian players at the US Open.
'We did not want India to either default or forfeit this tie'
Yen-Hsun Lu and Jonathan Marray outplayed top seeds Leander Paes and Raven Klaasen to win the men's doubles title at the Chennai Open tennis tournament.
India had a relatively fruitful day on the tennis courts of Wimbledon, with the warring duo of Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi advancing to the second round of the men's doubles with their respective partners, even as the country's singles challenge ended at the London Olympics with the defeat of Vishnu Vardhan.
India's campaign folded at the China Open in the opening round with both Leander Paes and Rohan Bopanna crashing out of the men's doubles events along with their respective partners, in Beijing on Monday.
The 13th seeded duo beat Feliciano Lopez and Fernando Verdasco of Spain to enter the last four at the US Open.
After being left out of the Davis Cup for the first time in 27 years, an angry Paes had on Thursday lashed out at Bhupathi, accusing his former partner of flouting selection criteria.
Paes, Bopanna in men's doubles 3rd round
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.
India's Sania Mirza and Rohan Bopanna progressed with their respective partners but Leander Paes' campaign ended after the veteran suffered a second-round defeat with Martina Hingis in the mixed doubles at the US Open.
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.
Even as Leander Paes celebrates his latest triumph, we take a look at his other 'Czech' partners with whom he had significant results.
Leander Paes celebrated his 42nd birthday by making it to the men's doubles quarter-finals of the ATP Aegon Championships at Queen's Club, on Wednesday.
'The only thing I am feeling bad right now is, if he had decided earlier to not come even two weeks or 10 days ago, we would have got a specialist doubles team in place'
Paes, Bhupathi, Saina need to work together for growth of Indian tennis: Becker
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 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.
India's Leander Paes along with his French partner Jeremy Chardy prevailed over Marcel Granollers and Sam Groth in a hard-fought three setter to enter the semifinals of the Delray Beach Open in Florida.
The cyst found in his brain has been diagnosed as a parasitic infection.
Leander Paes continued his winning run to advance to the mixed doubles' semifinals but it was curtains for Mahesh Bhupathi at the US Open.
Indian Davis Cup captain Ramesh Krishnan said it will be hard for the doubles ace to return to competition this year.
Leander Paes's dreams of winning a second Olympic medal went up in smoke as he and Rohan Bopanna made an inglorious exit in the opening round of the men's doubles competition, losing in straight sets to the Polish pair of Marcin Matkowski and Lukasz Kubot 4-6 6-7 (6-8) in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday. Playing in his record seventh and probably his last Olympics, Paes - a bronze medallist at the 1996 Atlanta Games, saw his campaign get over in only 84 minutes as not for once did the Indian pair look like having forged a winning combination.
Indian tennis legend Leander Paes won his first title of the season when he triumphed at the Winston-Salem Open with Canadian Daniel Nestor.
legend Leander Paes and Daniel Nestor disposed off the challenge of Marc Lopez and Rafael Nadal in straight sets to progress to the semifinals of the ATP Aegon Championships.
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.
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 German partner Andre Begemann made it to the finals of the St Petersburg Open by recording a straight-set victory over the Russian pair of Mikhail Elgin and Alexander Kudryavtsev in the men's doubles event. The Indo-German duo defeated the Russian pair 6-3 7-6 in a match that lasted around one and half hours.
The world no. 2 doubles player said he willbe flying to Orlando to be by his former partner's side.
Reader Pavan Malladi sent us this photograph of him and Indian tennis ace Leander Paes.
© 2026 Rediff.com - Investor Information - Advertise with us - Disclaimer - Privacy Policy - Sitemap - Feedback - About us - Terms of use - Grievances