Leander Paes and his partner Lukas Dlouhy rounded off their disappointing campaign at the season ending World Tour Finals with their third successive defeat in London on Friday.
Indian ace Leander Paes and his partner Lukas Dlouhy suffered a straight-set defeat against American Byran brothers Bob and Mike to be out of contention for a semi-final spot in the ATP World Tour Finals in London.
The Indo-Czech pair downed Australia's Nathan Healey and Robert Smeets 6-4, 6-2.
The wild card team of India's Yuki Bhambri and Michael Venus of New Zealand created a big upset at the Australian Open, shocking tenth seeds Jean-Julien Rojer and Horia Tecau in Melbourne on Friday. They needed just 64 minutes to get the better of the experienced Dutch-Romanian pair 6-4, 6-4 in a second round match.
Leander Paes and his Czech partner Lukas Dlouhy sailed into the second round of the French Open men's doubles with a straight-sets win over locals Sebastien de Chaunac and Benoit Paire in Paris on Wednesday night. The third seeds won 6-1, 6-3 and set up a clash with another unseeded duo, James Cerretani and Sergiy Stakhovsky. The Ukrainian-American pair defeated Spaniards Nicolas Almagro and Ivan Navarro 6-2, 4-6, 6-2 in another first round match.
Leander Paes and Sania Mirza will lead India in the individual and team tennis events at the Asian Games, in Doha in December.
Leander Paes and his Czech Republic partner Martin Damm will take on the Czech duo Petr Pala and Robin Vik in the first round.
Tennis ace Leander Paes is still rankled by the selection furore prior to the 2012 London Olympics and holds former partner Mahesh Bhupathi responsible for making the Games a "real sad" outing for him.
The Indian tennis ace is not fully fit but upbeat about doing well at the Asian Games.
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.
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.
Leander Paes and Canada's Daniel Nestor beat the Spanish combination of Fernando Verdasco and David Marrero 7-6(10-8), 6-3 in 83 minutes, while Sania Mirza and her Zimbabwean partner Cara Black beat Chinese Taipei's Yung-Jan Chan and Jie Zheng.
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 Lukas Dlouhy made a spectacular start to their campaign in the US $4,500,000 Miami Masters, storming into the doubles pre-quarter-finals after a crushing 6-2, 6-2 victory over Fernando Gonzalez and Juan Monaco. In the women's event, Sania Mirza and Chinese Taipei's Chia-Jung Chuang earned a hard-fought 6-4, 7-5 win over the Czech combination of Iveta Benesova and Barbora Strycova Zahlavova to advance to the pre-quarter-finals.
In what would come as a massive blow to India's chances at the Davis Cup, tennis ace Leander Paes pulled out of the US Open mixed doubles semi-finals due to back spasms which also makes him doubtful for the World Group playoff tie against Japan next week.
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 former world No.1 doubles pair upset fourth seeds Mark Knowles of Bahamas and Daniel Nestor of Canada in the semi-finals of the ATP Masters.
The former world No. 1 pair meet Gaston Etlis and Martin Rodriques of Argentina in the second round of the ATP Masters Series in Toronto, Canada.
Leander Paes is seen with wife Rhea Pillai and daughter Aiyana in a New York restaurant.
The defending champions were taken the distance by Australia's Paul Hanley and Trudi Musgrave in the mixed doubles quarter-finals at the Australian Open.
Leander Paes and Bhupathi are considered one of the best bets to win gold for India at the Athens Games next year.
Leander Paes said he is playing the Mumbai Open out of "respect" to tournament promoter and his former partner Mahesh Bhupathi.
The seventh seeds were subdued 6-1, 7-6 (4) by Janko Tipsarevic and Mikhail Youzhny
Leander Paes and Rohan Bopanna won the doubles match 6-2, 6-2, 6-2 to help India to a 1-0 lead against Kazakhstan.
Leander Paes and Lukas Dlouhy beat Marcos Baghdatis and Olivier Rochus 6-2, 7-6 in the first round of the Gerry Weber Open.
The Indian ace will not play singles but will be on the commentary team covering the Jan 2-8 event.
Leander Paes and Lukas Dlouhy, seeded seventh in US Open, became the first pair to advance to the men's doubles quarter-finals.
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.
Second seeds Leander Paes and Cara Black overcame a sluggish start to book a second round berth in the mixed doubles event of the French Open, scoring a 6-3, 6-3 win over Virginie Razzano and Jeff Coetzee on Thursday.
Second seeds Leander Paes and Cara Black overcame a sluggish start to book a second round berth in the mixed doubles event of the French Open, scoring a 6-3, 6-3 win over Virginie Razzano and Jeff Coetzee on Thursday.
India and New Zealand were tied 1-1 after the opening singles in the Davis Cup Asia-Oceania zone Group 1 first round match.
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 Indo-American duo defeated American duo Lisa Raymond and Mike Bryan 5-7, 7-6, 6-4.
Leander Paes and his Czech partner Lukas Dlouhy stormed into men's doubles quarter-finals after edging past Travic Parrott and Philip Polasek in straight sets at Wimbledon on Monday. The ninth seeded Indo-Czech duo beat the American-Slovakian team 7-6 (2), 7-6 (6), 6-4 in two hours and 14 minutes in the third round.
Karan Rastogi has withdrawn from the rebelling faction in the Davis Cup team asking for Leander Paes's ouster.
Leander Paes and Lukas Dlouhy survived a scare before beating Jurgen Melzer and Todd Perry in the first round of the Euro 891,000 Swiss Indoor ATP tournament in Basel. The third seeded Indo-Czech pair shrugged off the initial hiccups to beat the unseeded Austrian-Australian pair 2-6, 6-3, 10-6 in one hour and nine minutes to advance to the quarter-finals of the hard court event.
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.
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