London: Disappointed they might be after the second-round exit from Olympics but veteran Indian tennis star Leander Paes said he and his unheralded partner Vishnu Vardhan played "one hell of a match" against the fancied French combination of Michael Llodra and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga here. Paes and Vardhan lost 6-7 (3) 6-4 4-6 to Tsonga and Llodra in the men's doubles second round on Wednesday night in a gruelling contest that...
02:34 PM, Aug 02, 2012
CNN-IBN's experts analyse India's performances of Day 5 and discuss the prospects lie ahead on Day 6. ...
11:43 AM, Aug 02, 2012
London: Rifle shooter Gagan Narang opened the medal count for India at the London Olympics by winning a bronze on Monday, and hopes for more laurels were still alive with Indian stars doing well in badminton and tennis. Badminton star Saina Nehwal got the better of Belgian Lianne Tan to enter the women's singles pre-quarterfinals while the doubles pair of Ashwini Ponnappa and Jwala Gutta stayed in the competition with...
11:22 AM, Jul 31, 2012
London: Indian tennis pair of Leander Paes and Vishnu Vardhan put up a spirited performance to see off Robin Haase and Jean-Julien Rojer 7-6 (1), 4-6, 6-2 in the first round match here on Monday. India's warring duo of Paes and Bhupathi, who were locked in an ugly selection row in the build-up to the Olympics, advanced to the pre-quarters of the men's doubles competition along with their respective partners....
01:59 AM, Jul 31, 2012
London: The Indian men's doubles pairs will have to wait before taking the tennis court at the Wimbledon as their first round match of the London Olympics were postponed due to rain here on Sunday. Leander Paes and Vishnu Vardhan were set to take on Dutch pair Robin Hasse and Jean-Julien Rojer while Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna were pitted against Max Mirnyi and Alexander Bury of Belarus. India's men's...
10:46 PM, Jul 29, 2012
London: India's feuding tennis stars will seek to put the selection acrimony behind when they launch their Olympic campaign here Saturday, hoping to prove that their personal differences will not come in the way of bagging a medal for the country. The wranglings among players in the build up to the mega-event has raised serious doubts on whether they are in the right frame of mind to be able to...
03:07 PM, Jul 27, 2012
"It's a great morning to wake up to," said the 1996 bronze medallist tennis ace on the day of the opening ceremony. ...
09:46 AM, Jul 27, 2012
Mumbai: If there was one happy man after the recent controversy involving the selection of the Indian tennis team for the London Olympics, it would have to be Vishnu Vardhan. The 24-year-old rookie consequently got the opportunity to partner five-time Olympian and the countrys top-ranked player Leander Paes in the mens doubles event that begins this weekend at Wimbledons hallowed turf after both Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna refused to...
01:09 PM, Jul 25, 2012
Ahead of the 2012 London Olympics, Indias veteran tennis star Leander Paes spoke to CNN-IBN about his sixth Games appearance, his 26-year career, mentoring Vishnu Vardhan and why he has not opened up about the AITA controversy. Excerpts On playing his sixth Olympic Games I am really looking forward to my sixth Olympics. It's been 26 years of a great journey and I am very, very blessed to have my...
03:54 PM, Jul 20, 2012
New York: India's top tennis player Leander Paes said wrestler Sushil Kumar deserves to be the flag bearer of the countys Olympic contingent during the opening ceremony of the London Games. Paes, who had won a singles bronze medal at the 1996 Atlanta Games, said since he had already done the honours during the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2000 Games, Sushil, a Beijing Games bronze medallist, should carry...
02:54 PM, Jul 20, 2012
In the countdown to the 2012 London Olympics, we retrace some memorable Indian moments at the quadrennial games. Today, a look at Leander Paes bronze medal in Atlanta. In the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, India participated with a 49-member contingent with no hopes of a medal at all. The last Olympic medal for the country had come in Moscow 1980 through the Indian hockey team - gold. The next three Olympics...
12:15 PM, Jul 16, 2012
New Delhi: Indian Davis Cup captain S P Misra has suggested that Leander Paes should stick to the deuce court and Sania Mirza should support him from the left side with her "solid ground strokes" when they compete in the mixed doubles event of the London Olympics. Sania's preferred court-side, like Paes, is the deuce (right side) and she is keen that she plays in the Olympics from that side....
11:39 AM, Jul 16, 2012
Mumbai: India's tennis star Leander Paes says his Wimbledon performance is the perfect platform to serve up success at Olympics. After a successful Wimbledon, India tennis ace Leander Paes cant wait to be back at the same venue for the London Olympics tennis events that kick off on July 27. Ive had a great time at Wimbledon. Radek (Stepanek) and myself lost narrowly in the third round of the mens...
10:48 AM, Jul 14, 2012
New Delhi: A divided house filled with animosity like never before - that's what the Indian tennis contingent looks like heading into the London Olympics but it would be a mistake to write off the players even though they seem a vulnerable lot given the pre-Games bickering. The build up to the Games has been far from ideal as the players were busy squabbling over who will pair with whom...
01:37 PM, Jul 12, 2012
In an exclusive interview with CNN-IBN, Sania Mirza spoke on a variety of issues, including the latest Olympic selection row. Rajdeep Sardesai: We appreciate your joining us Sania. First your views on Roger Federrer. Seven titles now, Incredible. Is he the greatest Wimbledon champion, you think? Sania Mirza: I think that Roger Federrer is the greatest champion ever, not just Wimbledon I mean. Its amazing, hes an absolute genius and...
02:47 PM, Jul 10, 2012
In an exclusive interview to CNN-IBN, Sania Mirza said she is past the selection row and now is eyeing a good show with Leander Paes in the London 2012 mixed-doubles. ...
09:06 PM, Jul 09, 2012
New Delhi: Sania Mirza on Monday said that the bitter London Olympics tennis selection row created bad blood among the players and also strained her relationship with Mahesh Bhupathi but she has left it behind to focus on winning a medal in mixed-doubles with Leander Paes. Paes was forced to pair with lower-ranked Vishnu Vardhan in men's doubles after both Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna refused to play with him. He...
08:11 PM, Jul 09, 2012
Wimbledon: Leander Paes and Elena Vesnina will have to wait for their first Grand Slam title together as they lost the closely fought Wimbledon mixed doubles summit clash to Mike Bryan and Lisa Raymond, here on Sunday. The fourth-seeded Indo-Russian pair suffered a 3-6 7-5 4-6 defeat at the hands of second seed Americans after battling for two hours and four minutes. It is for the second time in this...
01:44 AM, Jul 09, 2012
London: India's Leander Paes and his Russian partner Elena Vesnina beat unseeded Paul Hanley and Alla Kudryavtseva to stroll into the mixed doubles semifinals of the Wimbledon tennis championships here Friday. The fourth seeds got the better of the Australian-Russian pairing 6-2, 6-2 in the quarters. They next meet winners of the match between top seeds Bob Bryan-Liezel Huber of America and eighth seeds Daniel Nestor of Canada and Julia...
10:00 PM, Jul 06, 2012
So this blog is supposed to review changes in India over the past decade. But of course there are some things that don't change. ...
05:01 PM, Jul 06, 2012
