Leander Paes thread...

[Sathya]

18 pro Slam titles -- a record-equaling 10 in Mixed Doubles, and 8 in Men's Doubles -- for Leander, to go with two junior singles titles. A total of 20 Slam trophies in his cabinet

Yes Really Noteworthy, adding to it, he may be the first tennis player to play 6 olympics !!!

[jaydeep]

Yes Really Noteworthy, adding to it, he may be the first tennis player to play 6 olympics !!!

Sathya, Rio 2016 will be his 7th Olympics.
Interestingly in 1992 he played doubles with Zeeshan Ali and in 2016 Zeeshan will be Indian tennis players coach at Rio.

[jaydeep]

Lee is playing in Croatian open with Russian Gabashvili and they r facing 4th seed local pair in the first round.

At € 520K Konzum Croatia Open, Umang

[R1] Teymuraz Gabashvili (RUS)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs (4) Nikola Mektic (CRO)/ Antonio Sancic (CRO)

[PKBasu]

Already posted this 3 hours earlier...

[jaydeep]

Already posted this 3 hours earlier...

Oops ... Didn't visited previous page before posting.

[prasen9]

Jaydeep, please keep posting. The formatting makes it easier to read when I am in a hurry. A bit of redundancy will not hurt any of us here. Just my POV.

[jaydeep]

Sure Prasenjit ...

[bujilover]

Match is on. Paes just lost his service game and the team trails 0-4 against the Croats. Make it 5-0. I assumed that the opponent team is seeded mainly because they are good at the CH level. Seem to be strong. BAGELED!

SECOND SET- Gabashvili lost his serve now. 0-6 0-2. Turning to be a nightmare. Phew! Leander finally holds for the first time in this match. 0-6 1-3 now. Can they force a comeback? Gaba holds for the first time too. 0-6 2-4 now. Easy hold for the Croats. 0-6 2-5. Leander to serve to stay in the match. And he served a double fault to surrender this match 0-6 2-6 to the opponents.

At € 520K Konzum Croatia Open, Umag

[R1] Teymuraz Gabashvili (RUS)/ Leander Paes (IND) 0-6 2-6 (4) Nikola Mektic (CRO)/ Antonio Sancic (CRO)

[jaydeep]

Lee is playing with German partner Andre Begemann in Italian Biella Challenger ... They r facing Spanish-Austrian pair in the first round.

At $100K+H Biella Challenger, Italy (Clay)

[R1] (3) Andre Begemann (GER)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs Michael Linzer (AUT)/ Enrique Lopez-Perez (ESP)

[vatsal323]

What's the point of playing on clay days before Rio? Unexplainable!

[Omkara]

What's the point of playing on clay days before Rio? Unexplainable!

Did he have a choice? Given his ranking.

Else there is a reason. Rio is only to make to it the books. Maximum appearances. Who cares? Bops saki would have been good.

[vatsal323]

He could have played in Segovia(hard)

[sameerph]

Leander and Rohan with their combined ranking would not have made it to the Toronto master main draw. So, I would not blame them for not playing together this week. Not sure if they would have played together even if they had a chance but giving them a benefit of doubt.

So, Lee had to choose one of the challengers. As Vatsal said, he could have chosen Segovia challenger which is on hard courts but is slightly lower level event.

While that would have been better, I do not think in doubles, surface makes so much of a difference. We have seen that last week when DiPu seamlessly moved on from grass to clay courts.

Lets hope that he gets some wins this week to build up some confidence ahead of Rio.

[PKBasu]

At $100K+H Biella Challenger, Italy (Clay)

[R1] 3-Andre Begemann (GER)/ Leander Paes (IND) d. Michael Linzer (AUT)/ Enrique Lopez-Perez (ESP) 61 64

[jaydeep]

Good comfortable win for Lee and German partner ... Next they r facing Brazilian pair.

At $100K+H Biella Challenger, Italy (Clay)

[QF] (3) Andre Begemann (GER)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs Fabricio Neis (BRA)/ Joao Souza (BRA)