• Thursday, April 25, 2024

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Paes: I have achieved everything; it’s tough to set new goals

Mahesh Bhupathi (R) with former partner Leander Paes

By: Sarwar Alam

At 44, with 18 Grand Slam titles and an Olympic medal in his cupboard, Leander Paes is finding it “tough to set new goals” but still spent his off-season getting stronger to remain relevant in modern day tennis, which is being dominated by brute power. Many of his contemporaries have become coaches and many of his juniors have already hung racquets but this Indian legend’s hunger for tennis is far from satiated. “For me the off-season is about skill, endurance, weights, core, back, reinventing my game because now the game has become physical. All these boys are 6’3″, 6’5”. They…

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