Also on offer is 'The Impossible', starring Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor. ...
09:30 AM, Jan 04, 2013
Leander Paes is going to need unconditional blessings of his fans to make his Bollywood debut successful. ...
09:38 PM, Jan 03, 2013
'Rajdhani Express', a socio-political drama, is directed by Ashok Kohli and also marks the debut of Leander Paes. ...
11:24 AM, Jan 03, 2013
AITA backed its Davis Cup support staff, saying it was not prepared to change the captain and the coach. ...
09:15 PM, Jan 02, 2013
Unseeded Thai brothers Ratiwana and Ratiwana dashed the hopes of Paes and Vasselin 7-6(7), 6-1 to breeze into the quarter-final. ...
02:06 AM, Jan 02, 2013
CNN-IBN Sports Editor Gaurav Kalra speaks to the Indian tennis star about his new role - acting in a bollywood film. ...
12:20 PM, Dec 31, 2012
Doubles World No.3 and defending champion Leander Paes of India will pair up with Edouard Roger-Vasselin from France for the 2013 edition of the Chennai Open which is to be held at the SDAT Tennis Stadium from Dec 31 to Jan 6. ...
02:38 PM, Dec 27, 2012
New Delhi: Some fine individual achievements were pushed out of public memory as a shattered Olympic dream, wrecked primarily by avoidable ego clashes, hogged the spotlight in a turbulent year for Indian tennis. Ageing star Leander Paes began 2012 with a bang as he completed his career Slam by grabbing the Australian Open with new partner Radek Stepanek in January. Sania Mirza won her second Grand Slam when she triumphed...
01:27 PM, Dec 21, 2012
New Delhi: The trailer of 'Rajdhani Express' is out. Directed by Ashok Kohli, the film stars Leander Paes, Jimmy Shergill and Priyanshu Chatterjee in the lead roles. The story is about Keshav, an errand boy for a gun runner, who one day steals the weapon and a ticket to escape and travel in Rajdhani Express from Delhi to Mumbai. However, inside the train his fate is no better. ...
08:56 AM, Dec 20, 2012
Kolkata: Struggling Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar Monday received support from unexpected quarters with five-time world champion chess wizard Viswanathan Anand urging him to continue playing as long as he wanted. "Criticism is fine, but if you still like playing it's crazy to stop for no reason. In sport there is no question that it favours young people in general. But I really want to play chess still," the 43-year-old Anand...
04:04 PM, Dec 17, 2012
London: Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna saved a match point to breeze into the title clash of the ATP World Tour finale after defeating Leander Paes and Radek Stepanek via Super tie-breaker, here on Sunday. The fifth seeded Indian pair halted the winning run of the Indo-Czech combination with a 4-6, 6-1, 12-10 win in the semi-finals and in the process avenged the defeat of the Shanghai Masters final last...
07:47 PM, Nov 11, 2012
London: Leander Paes and Radek Stepanek will go into the semi-finals of the ATP World Tour Finale as the unbeaten team as they pipped the top seeds Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan in their last Group A match, here on Saturday. Third seeds Paes and Stepanek held their nerves to beat three-time champions 6-4 6-7(6) 10-7 in one hour and 45 minutes. Now Bryans would be praying that seventh seeds...
08:58 PM, Nov 10, 2012
Mahesh Bhupathi continues to laugh in the All India Tennis Association’s face. The Indian stalwart combined with Rohan Bopanna to come up trumps at the Paris Masters on Sunday, beating the Pakistani-Dutch pair of Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi and Jean-Julien Rojer 7-6 (6), 6-3. It was the Indian pair's first ATP World Tour Masters 1000 title. For Bhupathi every success post-London Olympics is a strong statement towards the tennis governing body, which...
09:40 PM, Nov 04, 2012
London: India will host South Korea in a Davis Cup Asia/Oceania Group I first round tie, which will be held from February 1-3 next year. In the draw held here on Tuesday, India have been seeded fourth in the Group I while Australia got top billing in the eight-team Group. India had retained its place in Group I after routing New Zealand 5-0 in the play-off tie in Chandigarh last...
05:37 PM, Oct 23, 2012
New Delhi: Leander Paes remained unchanged at number five but Rohan Bopanna on Tuesday re-entered the doubles top-10 on the back of his runners-up finish at the ATP Shanghai Masters. Paes won the Shanghai Masters on Monday with Radek Stepanek, who also moved two places up to number six. Bopanna jumped four places to number 10 after gaining 600 ranking points. Bopanna's partner Bhupathi improved his ranking by two slots...
06:18 PM, Oct 15, 2012
Tokyo: Leander Paes and his Czech partner Radek Stepanek faltered at the final hurdle as they suffered an upset straight-set defeat at the hands of Alexander Peya of Austria and Brazil's Bruno Soares to finish runners-up at the ATP Japan Open here on Sunday. The fourth seeded Austrian-Brazilian pair defeated top seeds Paes and Stepanek 6-3 7-6 (5) in an hour and 46 minutes in the USD 1,280,565 hard court...
12:37 PM, Oct 07, 2012
Tokyo: Leander Paes and Radek Stepanek outplayed Daniele Bracciali and Frantisek Cermak in straight sets to storm into final of the ATP Japan Open on Saturday. The top seeded Indo-Czech pair defeated the Italian-Czech combination scored a comfortable 6-3 6-1 in one hour and three minutes in the semi-finals of the USD 1,280,565 hard court event. Paes has won three titles this season out of which two (Australian Open and...
03:33 PM, Oct 06, 2012
