The greatest ever tennis player India has produced is Ramanathan Krishnan. During his era there were players like Jaideep Mukherjee, Premjit Lal and Mr Naresh Kumar. The next generation gave India Vijay Amrithraj. Mr. Leander Paes is no where near any of these players. He has contributed nothing towards improvement of indian tennis. He has only done politics and has had regular fights with Mahesh Bhupati who is no doubt a much better doubles player than Paes. Yes Sania has shown by example with limited facilies for playing tennis in Hyderabad. Please praise sports persons who deserve and do not give undue credit. Atleast Leander has not done anything so great to make him a Icon of 61 . It is a shame if we do it.
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by Manoj Nag on Aug 13, 2008 05:55 PM Permalink
Mr. Venateswaran, It seems, u r nothing but a narrow minded South Indian, who cannot think beyond his region, and has no national feeling. It is very clear by ur comments that u want to say that only South Indian tennis players r good. Players from other region are no good. World knows very well between Leander and Bhupathi who is the better player and whole world knows Leander is much much better doubles player than Bhupathi, as far as singles bhupathi does not come anywhere near to Leander. It is becoz of Leander made bhupathi his doubles partner in the early part of his carrier, bhupathi could come up as doubles player. Without Leander's favor, no body would have known who Bhupathi is. We all know every former player advised Leander to against partner bhupathi, but it is due to Leander sacrificed, bhupathi got chances to play in big tournaments, and later on Bhupathi stabbed in (team captain) Leander's back by going aganist him in Asian games and davis cup.
No body needs ur opinion. World knows very Leander is the best Davis cup player India ever produced.
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by bharath on Aug 13, 2008 06:08 PM Permalink
Why don't you stick to your Hindi, man! Your English with North Indian accent and syntax errors sucks!
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by Calspadeaspade on Aug 13, 2008 11:21 PM Permalink
Just because the players he mentioned happen to be South Indians you are narrow minded enough to jump to a conclusion and lecturing him. It is true Amrithraj by far is the best tennis player India produced. He was a genuine serve and vollyer. In his times he was considered on par with Borg and connors who were base liners. Because of Asthma problem he could not last in long plays. He has served match point against connors in US open in the semi finals.
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by Calspadeaspade on Aug 13, 2008 11:16 PM Permalink
I agree fully. Ramanathan reached the finals of wimbledon and Vijay reached semi finals of one of the slams more than once and won Volvo tournament once. Leander got trounced in the first round itself in singles in major matches. One thing in his favor I would say is he knew his limitations and switched to full time doubles player.
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by Pramod Pillai on Aug 13, 2008 05:50 PM Permalink
i guess u must be 65-70years old now sir..we have moved forward from Krishnans...there is no denying their contributions...but there are others too...mahesh's only contribution is misguiding Sania offlate....
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by Calspadeaspade on Aug 13, 2008 11:23 PM Permalink
We may have moved from Krishnan. But the quality of tennis players we have now is inferior. That is what he is saying. Hopefully some one better comes soon.
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by GIREESH MM on Aug 13, 2008 06:06 PM Permalink
What a stupid analysis! Paes is the most succesful Daviscupper of India. He is almost zero in professional SINGLES circuit.Yet he defeated none other than Pete Sampras and likes.He is one of the best DOUBLES player in the WORLD.No doubt about that. He got Olympic bronze at Atlanta.Did you know the situation then Mr?Before that olympics,anyone who says "Paes has atleast a little chance of winning" must be referred to a psychiatrist.Because Paes was noone then.Even winning the first round was a big achievement.Everyone knew what happened.Paes FOUGHT like a true warrior and in the end he got the BRONZE medal.Anyone who closely followed the events will surely value it more than GOLD.
Paes is not a player.But he is the ULTIMATE WARRIOR whom the younger generation must make a ROLL model. Instead the idiotic media-the mafia- project the useless,spineless cricketers who always run for cover when seeing a MAN as a roll model.You just seem one of them.So what?
We(may be less in number) always consider LEANDER PAES the ultimate Fighter whom noone can be defeated. Remember,BRAVE men die only once!
