Leander Paes, India's Tennis pride, was born in Goa on June 17,1973 and brought up in kollkata . He captured the 1990 Wimbledon Junior title and was ranked as the No.1 junior player in the world at one time. In 1996 Atlanta Olympics, he won the bronze medal in the Tennis event and made India proud with this individual medal won after a long gap of 44 years.
He teamed up with Mahesh Bhupathi to form the Indian doubles team and the duo in 1999, showed their class by winning the French Open and Wimbledon and entering the finals of the two other Grand Slam Tournaments; the Australian and US Opens.
Mahesh Shrinivas Bhupathi is another professional tennis star.He is among the best doubles tennis players in the world with 11 Grand Slam titles to his creditMahesh Bhupathi is best known as one of the top doubles players in the 90's and the 00's. In 1999, Bhupathi won three doubles titles with Leander Paes including Roland Garros and Wimbledon.
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