Leander Adrian Paes ( PAYSS; born 17 June 1973) is an Indian former professional tennis player. He is regarded as one of the greatest doubles tennis players of all-time and holds the record for the most doubles wins in the Davis Cup. Paes won eight men's doubles and ten mixed doubles Grand Slam titles. He holds a career Grand Slam in men's doubles and mixed doubles making him one of only three men in the Open era to achieve this distinction and won the rare men's/mixed double at the 1999 Wimbledon Championships. Paes, together with Mahesh Bhupathi, were the first pair in Open era history to reach the men's doubles finals of all 4 Grand Slams in the same calendar year (1999). He is currently the brand ambassador of GS Delhi Aces, a team owned by Guru Samruddhi House of Investments in the Tennis Premier League.
His mixed doubles Wimbledon title in 2015 made him the second man (after Rod Laver) to win Wimbledon titles in three different decades. He repeated the feat by winning a Roland Garros title in three different decades with his mixed doubles title in 2016.
Paes received the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna award, India's highest sporting honor, in 1996–97; the Arjuna Award in 1990; the Padma Shri award in 2001; and India's third-highest civilian award, the Padma Bhushan prize, in January 2014 for his outstanding contributions to tennis. He won a bronze medal for India in men's singles at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games making him the first Asian in Olympic history to win a tennis medal and the only Indian to date. He competed in consecutive Olympics from 1992 to 2016, making him the only tennis player to compete in seven Olympic Games. He is also the most decorated male tennis player in Asian Games history with 5 Gold and 3 Bronze medals. He was won medals in every category (singles, doubles, mixed doubles and team event) and is the highest Indian gold medal-winning athlete across all sports in Asian Games history.
He is a former Davis Cup team captain, where in addition his Davis Cup all-time doubles win record with 45 victories, he also has the fourth highest number of overall wins in Davis Cup history with 93 total victories across singles and doubles in a 30-year career for India with match wins in 4 different decades. He played in World Team Tennis for the Washington Kastles. He was on the 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015 championship teams and was named Male MVP for 2009 and 2011. Paes retired from professional tennis in 2020, following his last Davis Cup tie in Croatia, with a record 1295 weeks spent ranked in the Top 100 in men's doubles.
On 20 July 2024, he was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, Rhode Island. Paes subsequently became the first Asian man to be inducted into the hall.
Preberite več...17. junij 1973 je bil nedelja pod znakom zvezdice ♊. Bil je 167 dan v letu. Predsednik Združenih držav je bil Richard M. Nixon.
Če ste rojeni na ta dan, ste stari 52 let. Vaš zadnji rojstni dan je bil torek, 17. junij 2025, pred 339 dnevi. Vaš naslednji rojstni dan je sreda, 17. junij 2026, čez 25 dni. Živeli ste 19.332 dni ali približno 463.987 ur, ali približno 27.839.269 minut ali približno 1.670.356.140 sekund.
Date: 17 June 1973
Hsinhua, Chinese Govt press agency, has distributed rept from its UN correspondents giving a glowing account of their visits to Amer cities in lat 12 mos; say their 'most treasured possession' is the sincerity of Amer people in their eagerness to know China
Date: 17 June 1973
correction on May 27 story which incorrectly said that D Ellsberg had been acquitted in Pentagon papers case; notes his case was dismissed before it went to jury
Date: 17 June 1973
Special to The New York Times
article discusses Watergate Complex, where break-in of Dem Natl Com hq occurred, as Washington's latest tourist attraction; illus
Date: 17 June 1973
Internatl Press Inst issues protest resolution during 22d assembly in Jerusalem expressing 'indignation' at continuing pressure and intimidation of newspapermen; notes jailings, systematic pressure and expulsion
Date: 17 June 1973
By JAMES M. NAUGHTONSpecial to The New York Times
article discusses serious governmental and const issues raised by Watergate affair ranging from impact of big money in pol to effect of pol on big govt, from faith in electoral process to doubts about use of 'natl security' to justify domestic surveillance
Date: 18 June 1973
By THEODORE SHABADSpecial to The New York Times
Protests made in connection with Brezhnev's visit to US by various emigre orgns representing various minorities in USSR, including Baltic peoples, noted
Date: 17 June 1973
By BERNARD GWERTZMANSpecial to The New York Times
About 400 Soviet diplomats and their families from Washington, DC, and NYC, greet Brezhnev on his arrival in Washington for unofficial start of his visit to US
Date: 18 June 1973
ROBERT WYLIE BROWNMICHAEL K. DAVIS(Prof.) LYMAN B. KIRKPATRICK Jr.RUTH ADAMSE. STUART DAVISBELLE ZELLER, ISRAEL KUGLER
Robert BROWNMICHAEL
J Raskin lr says that many of 118 merchant ships remaining from World War II Liberty fleet that will soon be sold for scrap could be used as hosp ships to augment local med services across US
Date: 18 June 1973
Correction to June 15 rept that Nixon has asked exporters to rept all unfilled orders as of June 14 to Commerce Dept by June 20 notes order actually applies only to exporters of specific grains, oil seeds and oil-seed products