Leander Paes (Indian
Professional tennis player)
Date to be observed: 17Th
June 2017
Leander Adrian Paes (born 17 June 1973) is
an Indian professional tennis player who is considered
to be one of the best doubles and mixed doubles
players of all time, having achieved a career Grand Slam in each discipline.
He has won eight doubles and
ten mixed doubles Grand Slam titles, and is the
oldest man to have won a Grand Slam title. He holds a career Grand Slam in
men's doubles and mixed doubles, and achieved the rare men's doubles/mixed
doubles double at the 1999
Wimbledon tournament.
His mixed doubles Wimbledon title in 2010 made him the second man (after Rod
Laver) to win Wimbledon titles in three decades.[1]
One of the most successful professional Indian tennis players, he has received the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award, India's highest sporting honour, in 1996–97; the Arjuna Award in 1990; the Padma Shri award in 2001 and its 3rd Highest Civilian Award the Padma Bhushan in January 2014 for his outstanding contribution to tennis in India
