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How Well Do You Know Leander Paes?

Amruta Deshpande
Take this quick short quiz to find out how much you know about the tennis legend.
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Leander Adrian Paes is an Indian professional tennis player born on 17th June 1973 in Kolkata, India.
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Leander Paes through his mother is directly related to Michael Madhusudan Dutta, the famous Bengali poet, writer & dramatist.
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Leander Paes’s mother, Jennifer Paes captained the Indian Basketball team at the 1980 Asian Basketball Championship.
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Dave O’Meara was Leander Paes’s coach at the Britannia Amritraj Tennis Academy, which played a very vital role in his early years.
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After winning the Junior US Open title and Junior Wimbledon title in 1990, Leander Paes turned professional in 1991.
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On his debut at the 1992 Olympics, Leander along with Ramesh Krishnan reached the quarterfinals of the doubles event.
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Leander Paes teaming up with Mahesh Bhupathi reached the finals of all 04 Grand Slams in 1999, winning the French Open and Wimbledon.
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Before Leander Paes, only KD Jadhav, an Indian wrestler had won a Bronze medal for independent India at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics.
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Leander Paes has won ten Grand Slam Mixed Doubles titles and eight Grand Slam Doubles titles making him one of the most successful doubles players.
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Leander Paes won the Arjuna Award in 1990, the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna in 1996-97, the Padma Shri in 2001 and the Padma Bhushan in 2014.
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Leander Paes along with Mahesh Bhupathi has 24 consecutive wins in the Davis Cup (1997-2010) which is a record for the longest doubles winning streak.
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Leander Paes holds the record as the first Indian and the only tennis player to compete in seven successive Olympics (1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012 and 2016).
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