Leander Paes Last Match In India

Editorials News | Feb-17-2020

Leander Paes Last Match In India

We all have known about and have heard this name of Veteran Leander Paes, in his final ATP Tour match on home soil it ended on a disappointing note as he and his partner Matthew Ebden has lost to Indian pair of Purav Raja and Ramkumar Ramanathan in the men's doubles final that was between the Bengaluru Open that happened recently.
Paes, who has currently played his final year of professional tennis and along with his Australian partner namely Ebden were of no match for their rivals, they have lost 0-6 3-6 in the summit clash which lasted just for 56 minutes. Paes and Ebden are the players who had recently abled to qualify for the final after beating their third seeds Andre Goransson of the countries Sweden and Indonesia's Christopher Rungkat in the semifinals.
Raja and Ramanathan are the players on the other side through this further entered the last-four round after Saketh Myneni and Matt Reid of the Australia conceded to the other semifinal contest.
India's campaign of singles had further come to an end recently after the likes of Prajnesh Gunneswaran, Sumit Nagal, Ramkumar Ramanathan, Saketh Myneni, Niki Poonacha and Sidhart Rawat – and all others crashed out.
After the defeat, Paes told that he will miss the massive support coming from the home crowd.
He further added that the fact that he have played his last match in India - it sunk in after the match when he was signing autographs. A young girl – who must have been of five or six years old - gave him a 'One Last Roar' t-shirt which was of twice her size.

By: Prerana Sharma
Content: https://sports.ndtv.com/tennis/leander-paes-finishes-second-best-in-his-last-atp-tour-match-in-india-2180801

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