Know Your Sports Star | Leander Paes | India At Olympics
Know Your Sports Star | Leander Paes | India At Olympics Lets Start with some quick facts - He has won Bronze medal for India in 1996 Olympics 54 Men's Doubles titles in his career and 8 out of those are Grand Slam titles 10 Mixed doubles Grand Slam titles Partnered with more than 125 tennis players in doubles and mixed doubles category World no 1 junior champion in Mens' singles His name is Leander Paes, living legend of Indian Tennis. Leander is Calcuttan, born to Dr Vace Paes - the hockey player from Bronze medal winning Indian Hockey Team. He completed his training in Chennai and rose to fame as No 1 tennis player in singles junior category in 1990 after winning Wimbledon title. Leander has played in singles in his early career but received less success in the format. Few highlights of his achievements from singles category are winning the only ATP title of his life and a win against all time greats Pete Sampras by 6-3, 6-4. ...