Leander Paes thread...

[Saniapower]

€ 2,750,000 Rome Masters, Italy (Red clay)

Leander Paes is aging !

[QF] (3) Leander Paes (IND)/Lukas Dlouhy (CZE) vs (7) Lukasz Kubot (POL)/Oliver March (AUT) 3-6

[jaydeep]

So last year French Open champions Lee and Lukas struggle on the clay is continue.

At €2.75M Internazionali BNL d'Italia, Rome

[QF] (3) Lukas Dlouhy (CZE)/ Leander Paes (IND) l (7) Lukasz Kubot (POL)/ Oliver Marach (AUT) 36 46

[jaydeep]

Lee and Lukas r in top draw ... They will face winner between Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (ESP)/ Albert Montanes (ESP) and Johan Brunstrom (SWE)/ Jean-Julien Rojer (AHO) in second round.

Mahesh (or Max) looks injured as they r skipping this Madrid Master.

At € 2.835M Mutua Madrileña Madrid Open, Spain

[R1] (3) Lukas Dlouhy (CZE)/ Leander Paes (IND) bye

[jaydeep]

Easy win against Argentine pair but in quarters facing Spanish pair.

At € 2.835M Mutua Madrileña Madrid Open, Spain

[R2] (3) Lukas Dlouhy (CZE)/ Leander Paes (IND) bt (ALT) Juan Ignacio Chela (ARG)/ Eduardo Schwank (ARG) 64 62

[QF] (3) Lukas Dlouhy (CZE)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs Nicolas Almagro (ESP)/ Marc Lopez (ESP)

[kna]

[QF] (3) Lukas Dlouhy (CZE)/ Leander Paes (IND) d. Nicolas Almagro (ESP)/ Marc Lopez (ESP) 2-6 7-5 10-3

Good comeback after losing the first set rather easily.

[SF] (3) Lukas Dlouhy (CZE)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs (1) Daniel Nestor (CAN)/ Nenad Zimonjic (SRB)

[kaustav]

Tame lose to the top seed Nestor-Zimo 3-6,4-6. Total number od DF by Paes-Dlouhy :8 ..no prize for guessing the culprit I wonder why Lee is carrying him , may be cuz Lukas has a strong returns...but sad part is after playing two years still the guy hits 5-8 Df average almost every match..and U can not expect to win big matches with this ratio... Isn't there any quality doubles player for Lee ? Should Leander continue with him?

[gbelday]

From today's WSJ...Sorry, quoting the whole piece here. Mods can remove if it violates any copyright rules..

3rd article in the list...
Game, Set, Dance!

Leander Paes said that in 2003, back when he thought he was going to die, he sat down and wrote 15,000 pages about his life in two months.

Leander Paes
A writer friend has since whittled the scribbled sheets down to about 50,000 words, said Mr. Paes, a 37-year-old Indian doubles and mixed-doubles player who earlier this year joined the short list of athletes to win Wimbledon titles in three different decades. He is currently pursuing a mixed-doubles title at the U.S. Open.

The autobiography is one of the many projects Mr. Paes has taken on since his scare in 2003, when for a few weeks doctors thought they had found a brain tumor (it turned out to be a rare parasitic condition).

In recent years, he has founded a clothing company, photographed airports around the world, and later this year he will begin shooting his first film, an Indian spy thriller in which he plays an undercover agent.

"By no means do I believe that because I'm a successful tennis player I'm going to be a successful actor," said Mr. Paes, adding that he has signed contracts for four films, including a classic Bollywood romance. "The chips are against me." To that end, he has hired coaches for acting, dialect, martial arts and dance.

As his athletic window closes, "I've been blessed with another vehicle as in movies," he said. But there may be a simpler reason he said yes. "It was an undercover agent," he said. "Which guy is going to say no to that?"

— Jim Chairusmi and Sophia Hollander