Event : Sports legends Leander Paes at the "Fit India Come N' Play Day" event,in New Delhi on Sunday

Leander Paes is ready to make entry in the Hindi film industry with 'Rajdhani Express'.

'Rajdhani Express' will be directed by Ashok Kohli.

Paes will be seen playing the role of a common man in the flick.

Leander, who is progeny of the noted Bengali poet and dramatist Michael Madhusudan Dutt, had been offered this film way back in 1996, but he was too engrossed in tennis and self admittedly, not 'ready' to take the plunge into acting.

Defending champions Leander Paes and Lucas Dlouhy have continued their winning lead. They have managed to storm into the quarterfinals of the French Open doubles event.

Last year they have won the tiles and this year they were a step ahead to grab the trophy. They beat Santiago Gonzalez and Travis RettenMayer in Paris in a straight set.

They are currently at the third seed in the ATP ranking. Their opponents were unseeded and quite inexperienced as well. Paes and Dlouhy have lifted their game up to upset them in straight sets.

The Indian doubles specialists Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi defeated Russia's Igor Kunitsyn and Teimuraz Gabashvili in straight sets and kept ray of hope alive for the country to do something at the Davis Cup World Group.

Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi, the winners of 14 Grand Slam titles during their career, would lock horns with Russia today.

Earlier, they closed the match by outclassing the Russian duo 6-3, 6-2, 6-2 in one hour 36 minutes.

India's Leander Paes and his partner Lukas Dlouhy of Czech Republic have entered into the quarterfinals of the mixed doubles events of the US $1,619,500 Dubai Open tennis tournament on Tuesday.

The Indo-Czech duo got past Polish duo of Mariusz Fyrstenberg and Marcin Matkowski in straight sets by 7-6 (7) 6-3 in the first round. The second seeded pair of Paes-Dlouhy won the first set after it went to tie-breaker while second set was just a cakewalk for them.

India has announced their squad for the Davis Cup tie against Russia and the young tennis sensation Yuki Bhambri has been dropped while Leander Paes has been included in the team.

Indian non-playing captain SP Mishra said that Yuki has opted to not to play in the Davis Cup tie as he will participate in the ATP Challenger circuits in USA for improving his ATP rankings.

He added that Yuki was included in the Davis Cup tie against South Africa due unavailability of the Paes, who was down with shoulder injury.

Tennis biggie Leander Paes is ready to make entry into the Hindi Film Industry as he has recently signed on to play a lead role in a Hindi movie.

When questioned what he would like to do when his long and victorious career as a tennis professional finally over, Paes had mentioned various options, which includes writing columns, establishing a sports science institute, doing business in fashion designing and doing TV commentary.

"I could even turn a filmstar, don't I have the looks!" Paes said.

That was a good 4 years back and hum like a joke.

Leander Paes was able to win yet another notable title, as at last, Sunday's Australian Open mixed doubles triumph aided him catch up with Mahesh Bhupathi's record of 11 Grand Slam crowns.

But as per Peas, helping Cara complete a Grand Slam in mixed doubles gave him the most satisfaction after he and Cara Black overpowered the unseeded Jaroslav Levinsky and Ekaterina Makarova 7-5, 6-3 in 68 minutes.

He explained, "She had won the other three and we had talked about the missing one during the course of this fortnight. She was a bit nervous at the start of the final."

India's Leander Paes and his Zimbabwean partner Cara Black have won the mixed doubles title in the Australian Open after defeating Ekaterina Makarova of Russia and  Jaroslav Levinsky of Czech Republic on Sunday.

The top seeded Indo-Zimbabwean pair registered straight set victory over the unseeded pair of Ekaterina and Jaroslav 7-5, 6-3 in one hour and eight minutes in the final to win their second Grand Slam title at the Melbourne Park.

India's Leander Paes and his Zimbabwean partner Cara Black have entered into the final of the mixed doubles event of the first grand slam of the year, Australian Open at the Melbourne Park on Friday.

The top seeded Indo-Zimbabwean pair survived from scare of Lisa Raymond of United States and Wesley Moodie of South Africa as Paes-Cara ousted their opponents 6-7 (6/8) 7-6 (7/5) 10-7 in the semifinal.

India’s Leander Paes and his Zimbabwean partner Cara Black have made into the quarterfinal of the mixed doubles event of the first grand slam of the year, Australian open at the Melbourne Park in Melbourne on Monday.

The top seeded Indo-Zimbabwean pair thrashed Uzbek Akgul Amanmuradova and Rik De Voest of South Africa in straight sets 6-4 6-2 in the second round to move to quarterfinals for the sixth time in last eight grand slam events.

Indian tennis ace Sania Mirza and Leander Paes have stormed into the next round of Australian Open after winning their respective matches in the women's and men's doubles event respectively at the Melbourne Park on Friday.

The 10th seeded duo of Sania and Virginia Ruano Pascual of Spain has defeated Swiss-Italian duo Timea Bacsinszky and Tathiana Garbin in straight sets by 7-6(3) 6-3 in the second round to move into the pre-quarterfinal of the women's doubles event.

London, Nov 26 : India's Leander Paes and the Czech Republic's Lukas Dlouhy are out of the ATP World Tour Finals doubles with a straight set loss to American Bryan brothers, Bob and Mike.

Paes and Dlouhy went down 3-6, 4-6 in a Group B match here Wednesday evening.

The Bryans broke the Indo-Czech pair's serve twice in the 84-minute match and won 78 per cent of points on serve.

Paes and Dlouhy had lost their first match to Lukasz Kubot and Oliver Marach and do not have a chance to qualify for the semi-finals.

Paris, Nov 12 : India's Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi made an early exit from the Paris Masters, going down in the second round with their partners.

Fourth seeded Paes and Lukas Dlouhy of Czech Republic went down to American Travis Parrott and Australian Jordan Kerr 7-6(5), 4-6, 5-10 Wednesday.

Bhupathi and Mark Knowles of Bahamas, seeded third, also lost a close match 4-6, 7-6 (6), 7-10 to Simon Aspelin of Sweden and Paul Hanley of Australia.(IANS)

Indian Davis Cup team faced a major blow as Indian tennis star Leander Paes has ruled himself out of the World Group play-off tie against South Africa due to shoulder and elbow injuries.

Paes received these injuries in the recently concluded US Open. Paes had clinched the title of men's doubles event with his Czech partner Lukas Dlouhy while he and Zimbabwean Cara Black finished as runner-up in the mixed doubles event of US Open.

New York, Sep. 14 : India-Czech Republic pairing Leander Paes and Lukas Dlouhy won the final of US Open men''s doubles to claim their second Grand Slam title of the year.

They beat third seeded Mahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles 3-6 6-3 6-2.

"This is the best year I''ve ever had on tour," BBC quoted Paes, 36, as saying.

The Paes-Dlouhy duo had won French Open men’s doubles title in June.

Sunday''s triumph for fourth seeds pair comes after their loss in last year''s final at Flushing Meadows.

Dlouhy had also reached the 2007 final with previous partner Pavel Vizner.

India’s Leander Paes and Cara Black of Zimbabwe failed to overcome last hurdle in their way of US Open mixed doubles crown as they went down to Carly Gullickson and Travis Parrott of US in the final on the Arthur Ashe court at Flushing Meadows on Friday.

The top seeded and defending champions Paes-Cara were upset by the unseeded US pair in straight sets 6-2 6-4. Paes-Cara looked off color in the match and they committed many unforced errors.

New York, Sep 11 : Irrespective of who wins or loses, India will triumph as two of its tennis stars—Mahesh Bhupathi and Leander Paes—face each other in the US Open men’s doubles final on Friday evening.

Paes will partner Lukas Dlouhy of the Czech Republic, while Bhupathi, will partner Mark Knowles of the Bahamas.

This is the first time Paes and Bhupathi are facing each other in a Grand Slam title clash.

Indian tennis stars Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi have ensured US Open men's doubles trophy for India as they will clash with each other in the final of the men's doubles event with their respective partners.

The third seeded pair of Bhupathi and Bahamian Mark Knowles will face fourth seeded duo of Paes and Czech Lukas Dlouhy in the men's doubles final. This will be first time in history of tennis that three times Grand Slam winner pair will play against each other in the Grand Slam final.

India's Leander Paes and Cara Black of Zimbabwe have stormed into the final of the mixed doubles event of the US open for the second successive time after defeating Taipei-Zimbabwe pair of Su-Wei Hsieh and Kevin Ullyett in the semifinal at the Flushing Meadows on Tuesday.  

The defending champions Paes and Cara ousted their fifth seeded opponents in a three setter match 6-2, 3-6, 10-5. The Indo-Zimbabwean pair fought hard and raced away with the match after it went to tie-breaker.