Leander Paes
Leander was born on 17 June 1973 in Goa, India. Leander Adrian Paes is an Indian proficient tennis contestant who at present features in the doubles events in the ATP tour and the Davis Cup tournament.
Having won seven doubles and six mixed doubles Grand Slam titles and concluding as runner up in several added Grand Slam finals, he is well thought-out to be one of the supreme and for the most part esteemed contemporary doubles and mixed doubles players in the globe. He is in the middle of the most triumphant professional Indian tennis players and is also the previous captain of the Indian Davis Cup team.
Date Of Birth : June17, 1973
Place Of Birth: Goa, India
Zodiac Sign: Gemini
Place Of Birth: Goa, India
Zodiac Sign: Gemini
Leander was born to Vece Paes and Jennifer Paes and was brought up in Kolkata. He did his education at La Martiniere Calcutta, Madras Christian College Hr Sec School, Chennai, and the Loyola College, Chennai of the University of Madras. Both his mother and father were sportspersons. His father Vece Paes was a midfielder in the bronze medal-winning Indian field hockey team which was held on 1972 Munich Olympics. His mother was the captain of the Indian basketball team in the 1980 Asian basketball championship. In 1985, Paes enrolled with the Britannia Amritraj Tennis private school in Madras (Chennai), where he was coached by Dave O'Meara. The private school played a key position in his before time growth. Leander turned into international fame as soon as he won the 1990 Wimbledon Junior title and became no. 1 in the junior world rankings. Coming from the family unit of sportspersons, Paes showed an early propensity for sports. Leander started to play tennis at the age of 5. Considering the aptitude and prospective in the boy, the Britannia Tennis school, run by the Amritraj family unit, pulled out him for focused training. In 1992, he touched the quarter finals of the doubles event in the 1992 Barcelona Olympics with Ramesh Krishnan.
Paes showed guarantee early on in his profession by captivating titles at the Junior US Open and the Junior Wimbledon. He became the professional in 1991. When Leander was still in school, he was singled out up by the BAT private school for additional improvement of tennis skills. Leander produced impression in the international tennis stadium by winning the Wimbledon Junior title in 1990. This occurrence proved to be the turning point of Leander's tennis carrier. He came as number 1 in the globe in the junior rankings. Paes is a straight successor of the Bengali poet Michael Madhusudan Dutt all the way through his mother. In the past having dated with the Bollywood actress Mahima Chaudhary, he is at present wedded to Rhea Pillai and has a daughter named Aiyana. He went one well again at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, where he strike Fernando Meligeni to win the bronze medal, thus he became the initial Indian to win an individual medal from the time when KD Jadhav won bronze at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics further than four decades before. Paes cited the contest as one of his furthermost performances on the courtyard, in part for the reason that his wrist was severely wounded. In 1996, he was awarded the chief sporting honor by the government of India, the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna. His primary unbeaten year in the ATP tour came in 1993, when he joined Sebastien Lareau to arrive at the US Open doubles semifinal. Later than having a restrained period in 1994, he reached the quarterfinals of the 1995 Australian Open doubles with Kevin Ullyett. From 1996, he combined with fellow-Indian Mahesh Bhupathi, which would show to be a winning combination. Their foremost year was not an extremely victorious one, particularly in the Grand Slams, with a round of 32 finishes at Wimbledon being the most excellent. 1997 proved a much improved year for the team of Paes and Bhupathi, with the semifinals of the US Open their greatest Grand Slam end result. Paes climbed the doubles position from no. 89 at the commencement of the year to no. 14 at the closing stages of the year. The doubles team of Paes and Bhupathi grew stronger in 1998, attaining the semifinals of three Grand Slams, the Australian Open, the French Open, and the US Open. In the identical year, Paes had two of his largest singles outcome in the ATP tour. Paes and Bhupathi joined in the men's doubles at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. They were eliminated in the quarterfinals by Roger Federer and Stanislas Wawrinka, who went on to come first in the men's doubles gold medal. Later on in 2008, with Cara Black, he won the 2008 US Open mixed doubles title. In 2009, he won the French Open and US Open Men's doubles titles with Luk� Dlouh� and he was also the runner-up in mixed doubles at the US Open. He began the 2010 period in good quality form, another time winning the Australian Open mixed doubles title with Cara Black. This was the pair's third successive Grand Slam final and the fourth overall. The 2010 Wimbledon triumph with Black prepared Paes India's most important Grand Slam winner, in front of his ex-doubles colleague Mahesh Bhupathi, with a whole of 12 grand slam titles. Leander Paes and his associate Radek Stepanek's trip at Wimbledon championship 2012 came to a conclusion when the duo lost in opposition to Ivan Dodig and Marcelo Melo.Few of her most important achievements at the intercontinental Level: He Won the 1990 Wimbledon Junior title In 1999, Won the Wimbledon and the French Open Doubles title He won the Bronze medal in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna reward in 1996 He carried the tricolor at the 2000 Sydney Olympics opening formal procedure He won the Padma Shri reward in 2001 Leander Paes showed a bundle of guarantee and outlook by captivating the Wimbledon Junior title in 1990. Despite the fact that, he has won a lot of doubles titles (and remained the number one pair all along with Mahesh Bhupati for a extensive point in time) and has a lot of Davis Cup exploits on his name, Leander was unsuccessful to maintain up the promise he made in 1990. Leander Paes has not been gifted to win numerous singles titles as was estimated of him. |
