Leander Paes - Revision history

Jyoti at 17:41, 28 July 2025

2025-07-28T17:41:12Z

Jyoti: /* 1998: beat then world No. 1 Sampras */

2022-08-28T06:44:26Z

‎1998: beat then world No. 1 Sampras

Jyoti: /* Atlanta, 1996 */

2022-08-28T06:40:46Z

‎Atlanta, 1996

Jyoti: /* 2019 */

2022-06-26T18:25:11Z

‎2019

Jyoti: /* Personal life */

2022-03-02T19:36:57Z

‎Personal life

Jyoti: /* 2018 */

2021-06-17T11:31:00Z

‎2018

Jyoti: /* Paes wins Santo Domingo, his 2nd Challenger title */

2018-10-17T10:43:52Z

‎Paes wins Santo Domingo, his 2nd Challenger title

Jyoti: /* 2017 */

2018-10-17T10:42:35Z

‎2017

Jyoti: /* 2017 */

2018-04-13T21:28:04Z

‎2017

Jyoti: /* Highest number of doubles wins in Davis Cup history */

2018-04-13T21:27:54Z

‎Highest number of doubles wins in Davis Cup history

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 “I picked her up in my hand and with Meligeni, I started having a little banter. He was a very close friend of mine. It distracted him a little bit. I won that game and got into what, in tennis we call `the zone',“ he explained.
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	“I picked her up in my hand and with Meligeni, I started having a little banter. He was a very close friend of mine. It distracted him a little bit. I won that game and got into what, in tennis we call `the zone',“ he explained.		“I picked her up in my hand and with Meligeni, I started having a little banter. He was a very close friend of mine. It distracted him a little bit. I won that game and got into what, in tennis we call `the zone',“ he explained.
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		+	==1998: beat then world No. 1 Sampras==
		+	[https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIDEL%2F2020%2F02%2F07&entity=Ar02906&sk=E65A6F63&mode=text February 7, 2020: ''The Times of India'']
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		+	Leander Paes had defeated the then world No. 1 Pete Sampras in the third round of the Pilot Pen Open in 1998. Paes revealed how listening to his sparring partner Lleyton Hewitt (then 17-year-old) helped him break Sampras’ serve. Hewitt, who had lost to Sampras in the earlier round, knocked on Paes’ bathroom door while arguing his case. The Aussie insisted that every time Pete is under pressure on his serve, he is not going down the T. He is going with a kicker to (returner’s) backhand.
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 Meanwhile, in the singles, Prajnesh Gunneswaran continues to be India’s topranked singles player though the Chennai left-hander dropped a rung to 95 and was followed by Sumit Nagal (127, +2), Ramkumar Ramanathan (190, +9), Sasi Kumar Mukund (250, +2) and Saketh Myneni (267, -1). PTI
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	After mediation proceedings for six days in the Supreme Court, tennis ace Leander Paes and his estranged partner Rhea Pillai failed to sort out their differences for an `out-of-court' settlement.		After mediation proceedings for six days in the Supreme Court, tennis ace Leander Paes and his estranged partner Rhea Pillai failed to sort out their differences for an `out-of-court' settlement.
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		+	== Leander guilty of abuse: Court==
		+	[https://epaper.timesgroup.com/article-share?article=26_02_2022_013_014_cap_TOI TNN & AGENCIES, February 28, 2022: ''The Times of India'']
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		+	Mumbai: A metropolitan magistrate’s court has held that tennis player Leander Paes committed various acts of domestic violence against expartner model-actor Rhea Pillai. It directed him to pay a monthly rent of Rs 50,000 apart from monthly maintenance of Rs 1 lakh to Pillai if she chose to leave their sharedresidence.
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		+	Pillai approached the court in 2014 seeking relief under the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, saying she was in a live-in relationship, akin to marriage, with Paes for eight years. Metropolitan magistrate Komalsing Rajput passed the order earlier this month, made available now.
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		+	Pillai claimed that Paes, through his acts and conduct, “caused verbal, emotional and economic abuse, which resulted in tremendous emotional violence and trauma”.
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 Old warhorse Leander Paes is still going great guns as the veteran tennis star won his second Challenger level title of the season, lifting the Santo Domingo Open trophy with partner Miguel Angel Reyyes-Varela. The second seeded Indo-Mexican pair, playing its second consecutive final, came from behind to beat Ariel Behar and Roberto Quiroz 4-6 6-3 10-5 in the summit clash, which lasted one hour and 26 minutes. Paes, who is ranked 69, added 110 ranking points to his kitty and shared a prize purse of $7,750 with his partner. Last week, the 45-yearold Paes and Angel ended runners-up at Montrrey Challenger to Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan and Marcelo Arevalo.
 Paes also ended runner-up at Chicago, Dallas on the ATP Challenger circuit and won the Newport Beach event.
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 However, Paes said the fact that he had won a title in Leon, which is at a higher altitude than the city , gave him the advantage if form was the criterion. “I'm here to support the country and the Davis Cup based on the criterion I was told  form. That being said, the team was chosen two weeks ago based on ITF form in Futures events. I just won an ATP Challenger. Bengaluru's altitude is 920m while Mexico's is over 1800m. When I got here yesterday for practice, I was feeling the ball well. I was told late last night. Mahesh, captain, has the right to choose. Basically the criterion was asked  obviously , it was not clear. The criterion is form, which doesn't seem to be the case. I believe in one simple phone call  letting me know if I'm needed or not.“
 ==Paes wins Santo Domingo, his 2nd Challenger title==
 [http://www.theshillongtimes.com/2018/10/15/sports-snippets-96/  October 15, 2018: ''The Shillong Times'']

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	However, Paes said the fact that he had won a title in Leon, which is at a higher altitude than the city , gave him the advantage if form was the criterion. “I'm here to support the country and the Davis Cup based on the criterion I was told form. That being said, the team was chosen two weeks ago based on ITF form in Futures events. I just won an ATP Challenger. Bengaluru's altitude is 920m while Mexico's is over 1800m. When I got here yesterday for practice, I was feeling the ball well. I was told late last night. Mahesh, captain, has the right to choose. Basically the criterion was asked obviously , it was not clear. The criterion is form, which doesn't seem to be the case. I believe in one simple phone call letting me know if I'm needed or not.“		However, Paes said the fact that he had won a title in Leon, which is at a higher altitude than the city , gave him the advantage if form was the criterion. “I'm here to support the country and the Davis Cup based on the criterion I was told form. That being said, the team was chosen two weeks ago based on ITF form in Futures events. I just won an ATP Challenger. Bengaluru's altitude is 920m while Mexico's is over 1800m. When I got here yesterday for practice, I was feeling the ball well. I was told late last night. Mahesh, captain, has the right to choose. Basically the criterion was asked obviously , it was not clear. The criterion is form, which doesn't seem to be the case. I believe in one simple phone call letting me know if I'm needed or not.“
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		+	==Paes wins Santo Domingo, his 2nd Challenger title==
		+	[http://www.theshillongtimes.com/2018/10/15/sports-snippets-96/ October 15, 2018: ''The Shillong Times'']
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		+	Old warhorse Leander Paes is still going great guns as the veteran tennis star won his second Challenger level title of the season, lifting the Santo Domingo Open trophy with partner Miguel Angel Reyyes-Varela. The second seeded Indo-Mexican pair, playing its second consecutive final, came from behind to beat Ariel Behar and Roberto Quiroz 4-6 6-3 10-5 in the summit clash, which lasted one hour and 26 minutes. Paes, who is ranked 69, added 110 ranking points to his kitty and shared a prize purse of $7,750 with his partner. Last week, the 45-yearold Paes and Angel ended runners-up at Montrrey Challenger to Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan and Marcelo Arevalo.
		+	Paes also ended runner-up at Chicago, Dallas on the ATP Challenger circuit and won the Newport Beach event.

	= Highest number of doubles wins in Davis Cup history=		= Highest number of doubles wins in Davis Cup history=

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	However, Paes said the fact that he had won a title in Leon, which is at a higher altitude than the city , gave him the advantage if form was the criterion. “I'm here to support the country and the Davis Cup based on the criterion I was told form. That being said, the team was chosen two weeks ago based on ITF form in Futures events. I just won an ATP Challenger. Bengaluru's altitude is 920m while Mexico's is over 1800m. When I got here yesterday for practice, I was feeling the ball well. I was told late last night. Mahesh, captain, has the right to choose. Basically the criterion was asked obviously , it was not clear. The criterion is form, which doesn't seem to be the case. I believe in one simple phone call letting me know if I'm needed or not.“		However, Paes said the fact that he had won a title in Leon, which is at a higher altitude than the city , gave him the advantage if form was the criterion. “I'm here to support the country and the Davis Cup based on the criterion I was told form. That being said, the team was chosen two weeks ago based on ITF form in Futures events. I just won an ATP Challenger. Bengaluru's altitude is 920m while Mexico's is over 1800m. When I got here yesterday for practice, I was feeling the ball well. I was told late last night. Mahesh, captain, has the right to choose. Basically the criterion was asked obviously , it was not clear. The criterion is form, which doesn't seem to be the case. I believe in one simple phone call letting me know if I'm needed or not.“
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		+	= Highest number of doubles wins in Davis Cup history=
		+	==2018, April: Helps India beat China 3-2==
		+	[https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIDEL%2F2018%2F04%2F09&entity=Ar01404&sk=8A6773DC&mode=text Kumaraswamy K, April 8, 2018: ''The Times of India'']
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		+	'''Legendary Leander'''
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		+	''He creates history in Davis Cup – but Indian tennis looks woefully short of budding talent''
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		+	With a 43rd win barely two months short of his 45th birthday, Indian tennis ace Leander Paes became the most successful doubles player in Davis Cup history on Saturday. The 1996 Olympic bronze medallist teamed up with Rohan Bopanna to defeat the Chinese pair of Mao-Xin Gong and Ze Zhang, in a do or die game to advance India into the world group playoffs. This achievement is a tribute to Leander’s grit and fitness – considering he made his Davis Cup debut in 1990.
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		+	Though Davis Cup may have lost its sheen to Grand Slam tournaments and some major ATP tournaments over the past decade, all top-ranked players have turned up for national duty in the tournament. It is in this context that Leander’s enduring spirit is even more inspiring. He raises the bar whenever he dons the Indian jersey. But Indian tennis has been struggling to throw up more players like him, and Mahesh Bhupathi. Apart from them, Sania Mirza and Bopanna have been the only two Indian players to have won doubles Grand Slam titles.
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		+	India’s bigger worry is not being able to produce quality singles players despite many promising starts at the junior level. Currently, Indian hopes rest on a handful of young players like former junior world number one Yuki Bhambri, Ramkumar Ramanathan and 2015 junior Wimbledon doubles winner Sumit Nagal. The All India Tennis Association needs to look beyond merely organising tournaments in urban centres and focus on increasing the catchment area. But talent spotting is only a job half done. AITA needs to either provide sustained financial support to their top 10 players or invest in hiring the services of some world-class coaches to nurture this talent for a brighter future.
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		+	The seemingly ageless Leander Paes, 44, secured a sought-after record, becoming the most successful doubles player in the history of the David Cup with a record 43rd win as India staged a stirring fightback against China, completing a thrilling 3-2 win in the Asia-Oceania Group 1 second-round tie in Tianjin.
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		+	The Indians were two points away from a humiliating defeat when Paes and Rohan Bopanna were 4-5 down in the second-set tiebreaker against Mai-Xing Dong and Ze Zhang, but the duo stayed strong to pull through for a 5-7, 7-6 (5), 7-6 (3) victory at the Tianjin Tennis Centre.
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		+	In elite company: Paes surpassed Italian Nicola Pietrangeli for the most number of doubles wins in the competition’s history. He now stands at 43-13 in doubles in 55 ties. The 44-year-old Kolkatan, however, is fifth in singles (48-22) and overall (90-35) lists. Tunisia-born Pietrangeli, aged 84, tops both lists at 78-32 and 120-44, respectively, from 66 ties. He is also a two-time French Open singles champion (1959-60).
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		+	The victory is yet another feather in Paes’ richly decorated cap and comes after a series of public mudslingings with Bopanna and Bhupathi over playing in the Davis Cup and the Olympics. “Their class saw them through,” Bhupathi said, referring to Paes and Bopanna. “Down 5-4 in the second set tiebreaker, they both hit clean winners to keep the match alive, which reflects their experience too.”

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−	~~= Highest number of doubles wins in Davis Cup history=~~
−	~~==2018, April: Helps India beat China 3-2==~~
−	~~[https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIDEL%2F2018%2F04%2F09&entity=Ar01404&sk=8A6773DC&mode=text Kumaraswamy K, April 8, 2018: ''The Times of India'']~~
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−	~~'''Legendary Leander'''~~
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−	~~''He creates history in Davis Cup – but Indian tennis looks woefully short of budding talent''~~
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−	With a 43rd win barely two months short of his 45th birthday, Indian tennis ace Leander Paes became the most successful doubles player in Davis Cup history on Saturday. The 1996 Olympic bronze medallist teamed up with Rohan Bopanna to defeat the Chinese pair of Mao-Xin Gong and Ze Zhang, in a do or die game to advance India into the world group playoffs. This achievement is a tribute to Leander’s grit and fitness – considering he made his Davis Cup debut in 1990.
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−	Though Davis Cup may have lost its sheen to Grand Slam tournaments and some major ATP tournaments over the past decade, all top-ranked players have turned up for national duty in the tournament. It is in this context that Leander’s enduring spirit is even more inspiring. He raises the bar whenever he dons the Indian jersey. But Indian tennis has been struggling to throw up more players like him, and Mahesh Bhupathi. Apart from them, Sania Mirza and Bopanna have been the only two Indian players to have won doubles Grand Slam titles.
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−	India’s bigger worry is not being able to produce quality singles players despite many promising starts at the junior level. Currently, Indian hopes rest on a handful of young players like former junior world number one Yuki Bhambri, Ramkumar Ramanathan and 2015 junior Wimbledon doubles winner Sumit Nagal. The All India Tennis Association needs to look beyond merely organising tournaments in urban centres and focus on increasing the catchment area. But talent spotting is only a job half done. AITA needs to either provide sustained financial support to their top 10 players or invest in hiring the services of some world-class coaches to nurture this talent for a brighter future.
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−	The seemingly ageless Leander Paes, 44, secured a sought-after record, becoming the most successful doubles player in the history of the David Cup with a record 43rd win as India staged a stirring fightback against China, completing a thrilling 3-2 win in the Asia-Oceania Group 1 second-round tie in Tianjin.
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−	The Indians were two points away from a humiliating defeat when Paes and Rohan Bopanna were 4-5 down in the second-set tiebreaker against Mai-Xing Dong and Ze Zhang, but the duo stayed strong to pull through for a 5-7, 7-6 (5), 7-6 (3) victory at the Tianjin Tennis Centre.
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−	In elite company: Paes surpassed Italian Nicola Pietrangeli for the most number of doubles wins in the competition’s history. He now stands at 43-13 in doubles in 55 ties. The 44-year-old Kolkatan, however, is fifth in singles (48-22) and overall (90-35) lists. Tunisia-born Pietrangeli, aged 84, tops both lists at 78-32 and 120-44, respectively, from 66 ties. He is also a two-time French Open singles champion (1959-60).
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−	The victory is yet another feather in Paes’ richly decorated cap and comes after a series of public mudslingings with Bopanna and Bhupathi over playing in the Davis Cup and the Olympics. “Their class saw them through,” Bhupathi said, referring to Paes and Bopanna. “Down 5-4 in the second set tiebreaker, they both hit clean winners to keep the match alive, which reflects their experience too.”

	=Atlanta, 1996=		=Atlanta, 1996=