Leander Adrian Paes (natural June 17, 1973) is currently one of a virtually all successful players of the tennis Men's Doubles and Mixed Doubles circuits.

Leander Paes was innate around Goa and brought up inside Kolkata (then Calcutta). His mother, Jennifer Paes was a far-famed basketball player and captain of the Indian team in the 1980 Asian Basketball Championships. His father, Vece Paes, was a hockey midfielder representing the Indian team in the 1972 Munich Olympics that won the bronze decoration.

He joined a Britannia Tennis Academy within Madras (today called Chennai) in 1985 in which he was coached by Dave O'Meara. Leander shot into international fame once he won a 1990 Wimbledon Junior title and rose to There are no.One in the junior globe-rankings.

He turned office inside 1991 & inside 1996 won a bronze decoration at a Atlanta Olympics becoming the number one Indian inside extrthe than Quartet decades to win a single decoration. A former single medalist for India was K.D. Jadhav who won a bronze in 1952.

Specialising around Doubles, he was stratified first along by owning Mahesh Bhupathi.

He was the joint winner of India's highest sporting honour, a Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award in the year 1996-1997 along with Nameirakpam Kunjarani.

Grand Slam titles
MEN'S DOUBLES Month Championship Partner 1999 French Open Mahesh Bhupathi (IND) 1999 Wimbledon Mahesh Bhupathi (IND) 2001 French Open Mahesh Bhupathi (IND) MIXED DOUBLES Month Championship Partner 1999 Wimbledon Lisa Raymond (USA) 2003 Australian Open Martina Navratilova (USA) 2003 Wimbledon Martina Navratilova (USA)

Career Highlights
1990 - Wimbledon Boys title 1992 - Barcelona Olympics, reached quarter-finals of the doubles competition 1993 - Davis Cup, reached semi-finals 1996 - Atlanta Olympics, singles bronze-medallist 1997 - US Open doubles, reached semi-finals 1998 - reached doubles semi-semi of Australian, French and US Open 1999 - reached doubles finals of all the quatern Grand Slams partnering Mahesh Bhupathi, a number one period such the exploit has been achieved in the Open era & the number one instance since 1952, eventually winning at Wimbledon & French Open.
Mixed doubles title at Wimbledon 2001 - French Open doubles title 2003 - Wimbledon & Australian Open mixed-doubles title along by owning Martina Navratilova 2004 - reached a semi-semi of a double competition at the Athens Olympics and finals of US Open doubles