She may not be a tennis freak, but Bollywood beauty Lara Dutta is sincerely hoping that her fiance Mahesh Bhupathi wins the men’s doubles Australian Open with his partner Leander Paes Sunday. “So proud of Lee & Hesh!!! Praying for a win! The only Grandslam title they haven’t won together… YET!!! C’monnnnn Boys!!! (sic),” Lara [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Leander Paes’
Lara roots for Paes-Bhupathi
January 28th, 2011 |
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Paes, Bhupathi script fairytale win
January 4th, 2011 |
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Top seeds Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi rolled back the years as they rallied brilliantly to overcome the Canadian-Swiss combo of Frank Dancevic and Stanislas Wawrinka 3-6, 7-6 (8), 10-4 to enter the doubles second round in the Aircel ATP Chennai Open tennis tournament here in the wee hours of Tuesday. Coming together on the [...]
India gets first gold in CWG: Bindra, Narang win in air rifle event
October 5th, 2010 |
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Olympian gold winner Abhinav Bindra and World Champion Gagan Narang won their first gold medals for India in the Pairs 10 m Air Rifle Mens event at the Commonwealth Games on Tuesday. Bindra scored 595 and Narang scored 498. World champion Tejaswini Sawant is also to be seen in action in the 50m 3P pairs [...]
Somdev touches career-best ranking
April 12th, 2010 |
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India’s Somdev Devvarman continues to prosper on the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) Tour and has risen to a career-high ranking of 110 on its charts here Monday.
Somdev, who came close to knocking out former World No.1 Lleyton Hewitt of Australia in the second round of the US men’s Clay Court Championship, has improved upon [...]
Paes keeps word to Black with mixed double title
February 1st, 2010 |
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India’s Leander Paes kept his promise to Zimbabwean partner Cara Black when they won the Australian Open mixed doubles title yesterday. The pair overcame some first set jitters to beat Russia’s Ekaterina Makarova and Czech Jaroslav Levinsky 7-5, 6-3 for their second Grand Slam mixed doubles
Paes keeps promise to Black with mixed doubles title
January 31st, 2010 |
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India’s Leander Paes kept his promise to Zimbabwean partner Cara Black when they won the Australian Open mixed doubles title on Sunday. The pair overcame some first set jitters to beat Russia’s Ekaterina Makarova and Czech Jaroslav Levinsky 7-5, 6-3 for their second Grand Slam mixed doubles
Australian Open: Sania, Paes move on, Somdev-Prakash out
January 22nd, 2010 |
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India’s Sania Mirza and Leander Paes advanced with their respective partners in the while Somdev Devvarman and Prakash Amritraj were shown the door in the doubles at the Australian Open tennis at Melbourne Park here Friday.
The 10th-seeded pair of Sania and Spaniard Virginia Ruano Pascual battled past Swiss Timea Bacsinszky and Italian Tathiana Garbin 7-6(3), [...]
Davis cuppers Somdev, Yuki call on Sports Minister
September 23rd, 2009 |
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Indian tennis star Somdev Devvarman, who put the country back into the Davis Cup top tier World Group in South Africa and Yuki Bhambri, met Sports Minister M.S. Gill here on Tuesday.
Devvarman made an impressive return from two sets down to beat Rik de Voest 3-6 6-7 7-6 6-2 6-4 in four hours and 38 [...]
Paes, Bhupathi enter US Open doubles semi-finals
September 9th, 2009 |
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Indian tennis stars Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi are hoping to compete against each other in the doubles finals of the US OPen at Flushing Meadow after entering the semi-finals on Tuesday.
Mahesh Bhupathi and his partner Mark Knowles of Bahamas outwitted Croatian Ivan Ljubicic and Frenchman Michael Llodra in the men’’s doubles quarter final [...]
Paes leads Washington to 1st WTT championship
July 27th, 2009 |
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Washington Kastles have won their first World TeamTennis Pro League championship, beating the Springfield Lasers 23-20 on Sunday night.
The Kastles were led by Leander Paes, the league’s male MVP, who teamed with Scott Oudsema to win the men’s doubles and with Rennae Stubbs to win the mixed doubles. Paes owns nine [...]
Paes leads Washington to 1st WTT championship
July 27th, 2009 |
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Washington Kastles have won their first World TeamTennis Pro League championship, beating the Springfield Lasers 23-20 on Sunday night.
The Kastles were led by Leander Paes, the league’s male MVP, who teamed with Scott Oudsema to win the men’s doubles and with Rennae Stubbs to win the mixed doubles. Paes owns nine [...]