Leander Paes biography
Leander Paes, (born June 17, 1973, Goa, India), Indian tennis participant who was one of the vital profitable doubles gamers in tennis historical past, with 8 profession Grand Slam doubles titles and 10 profession Grand Slam combined doubles championships.
Paes started taking part in tennis on the age of 5, and in 1985 he joined a tennis academy in Madras (now Chennai). He received the 1990 Wimbledon junior title and was briefly ranked the primary junior participant on this planet. Paes joined the Indian Davis Cup workforce in 1990 and turned skilled in 1991. In 1996 when he took the lads’s singles tennis bronze medal on the Atlanta Olympic Games, he grew to become the primary Indian athlete since 1952 to win a person Olympic medal.
Paes started a doubles partnership with countryman Mahesh Bhupathi in 1994. In each 1997 and 1998, the duo captured six Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) doubles titles out of the eight event finals they reached throughout every year. Paes and Bhupathi superior to the doubles finals of all 4 Grand Slam tournaments in 1999, profitable the French Open and Wimbledon however dropping within the Australian and U.S. Opens. That 12 months noticed the pair ascend to the primary ATP doubles rating, however private issues between them quickly led to the dissolution of their full-time partnership. Paes and Bhupathi did play collectively every now and then over the next years, together with on the 2001 French Open, which they received for the second time.
Without Bhupathi, Paes continued his doubles success, profitable 5 extra Grand Slam titles with a sequence of Czech companions: the 2006 U.S. Open (with Martin Damm), the 2009 French and U.S. Opens (each with Lukáš Dlouhý), and the 2012 Australian Open and the 2013 U.S. Open (each with Radek Štěpánek). By profitable the Australian title, Paes captured the celebrated profession Grand Slam. He additionally claimed a profession Grand Slam in combined doubles, profitable at Wimbledon (1999, 2003, 2010, 2015), the Australian Open (2003, 2010, 2015), the French Open (2016), and the U.S. Open (2008, 2015) with companions Lisa Raymond (1999), Martina Navratilova (2003), Cara Black (2008–10), and Martina Hingis (2015–16).
In 2001 Paes and Bhupathi had been awarded the Padma Shri, one among India’s highest civilian honours.