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Leander Adrian Paes (; born 17 June 1973) is an Indian professional tennis player who currently features in the doubles events in the ATP tour and the Davis Cup tournament.
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1 twin Bryan brothers, from-behind semifinal winners Thursday at the Australian Open .The Bryans saved a match point and overcame a 2-5 deficit in a third-set tiebreak before sneaking past a seventh-seeded team of Swede Robert Lindstedt and Romanian Horia Tecau 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (7-5) at Melbourne Park."Played kind of our best tennis at the very end," Mike Bryan said. "Bob reflexed an unbelievable shot to get to 5-3. They're a big serving team. It's tough. I thought they played well. I think they're the most improved out on tour."The 33-year-old Bryans own 11 Grand Slam doubles titles, including the last three Aussie Open crowns. They have won five of the last six Aussie titles and are also the reigning Wimbledon champs.The Bryans are also an eight-time Grand Slam doubles runner-up.Up next for the mighty Bryans will be an unseeded duo of Indian Leander Paes and Czech Radek Stepanek , who fought back to upend a second-seeded tandem of Belarusian Max Mirnyi and Canadian Daniel ...American Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Romanian partner Horia Tecau won the Australian Open mixed doubles title on Sunday.Mattek-Sands and Tecau, seeded No. 8, easily wo...
The Czech Republic reached the Davis Cup quarterfinals after Tomas Berdych and Radek Stepanek won the doubles for a 3-0 lead over Italy on Saturday.Berdych and Stepa...
Roger Federer and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga will meet for the eighth time this season, after both won semifinal matches Saturday at the ATP World Tour Finals.Federer reache...
Roger Federer reached his 100th career set victory over David Ferrer in the first semifinal at the ATP World Tour Finals.Federer earned a 7-5, 6-3 triumph on Saturda...
Seas of empty seats in stadiums and arenas. Scales that gave the wrong readings for boxers at their weigh-ins. And then the royal flub: an official who identified Pr...
Kim Clijsters believes she's now earned the nickname she had for years in Australia."I finally feel like you guys can call me 'Aussie Kim' because I won the title," ...
Australians hoping for an end to their country's Grand Slam futility aren't going to see it happen on home soil.Sam Stosur was not the only hometown disappointment F...
By Barry WoodTop seed and four-times champion Roger Federer posted an identical score against Indian wildcard Somdev Devvarman as he too shook off the rust in his fi...
American twins Bob and Mike Bryan won their fifth Australian Open doubles title and 10th Grand Slam championship, beating India's Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi 6-...
"Vamos!" shouted the Indian doubles player. His Spanish-speaking opponents were clearly not amused.Tennis etiquette was put aside during a heated doubles match betwe...
Rafael Nadal was in the locker room, keeping inexperienced wild card Bernard Tomic waiting.It was Saturday night and Melbourne Park had attracted a record crowd for ...
Roger Federer won his first match since losing in the Australian Open semifinals by beating Somdev Devvarman of India 6-3, 6-3 in the first round of the Dubai Champi...
Leander Paes and Radek Stepanek denied Bob and Mike Bryan their record 12th Grand Slam doubles title, beating the American twins 7-6 (1), 6-2 in the final of the Aus...
Victoria Azarenka started celebrating, then suddenly did a double-take to ask her coach, "What happened?"The answer: She had just produced one of the most lopsided A...
Defending champion Novak Djokovic moved into an Australian Open final against Rafael Nadal after struggling past Andy Murray in a five-set, almost five-hour semifina...
Petra Kvitova was disappointed to fall short against the more experienced Maria Sharapova in the semifinals of the Australian Open .However, after her breakthrough s...
Andy Murray had just spent nearly five hours on court in an Australian Open semifinal loss to Novak Djokovic that ran past midnight.Then he found out drug testers we...
American Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Romanian Horia Tecau won the mixed doubles title at the Australian Open on Sunday, beating Elena Vesnina and Leander Paes 6-3, 5-7...
Leander Paes and Radek Stepanek ended year Australian Open reign of Bob and Mike Bryan on Saturday, ranked twin brothers in the men's doubles final.Paes and Stepanek...
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