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Joining other
top tennis players, India's Leander Paes today decided to
donate his prize money in the $380,000 Chennai open,
beginning on Monday, for the tsunami victims.
"I always help children and lot of orphanages and like other
visiting tennis stars, the whole week I will play for the
tsunami victims and the prize money that I will earn will be
donated for this noble cause," said an emotional Paes.
Paes, who was at the tennis stadium for practice, said
"Chennai is like home for me since I spent a valuable five
years here. We cannot fight nature ... It is our very own
beach (Marina), where we in the Britania Amritraj Tennis
Trust used to train for four days a week."
Future plans
On his future plans, the Indian ace said "tennis is my
passion and I am happy that I came back into the game after
my health problems (brain lesion) last year."
Paes, who skipped the Chennai event last year will be playing
in both singles and doubles this year.
In singles, Paes, a wild card entrant, will take on Yen-Hsun
Lu of Taipei and in doubles, Paes and Zimonjic will play Jean
Francois and Gregory Carraz of France in the first round.
Bhupathi and Paes won the doubles titles four times and in
singles Paes' best effort in seven appearances as a wild
card, was a semi-final loss to the then top seed, Patrick
Rafter, the ultimate winner of the title in 1998.
Paes's former doubles partner, Mahesh Bhupathi, Jonas
Bjorkman of Sweden, Rainer Schuettler (Germany), among
others, have earlier agreed to donate their prize money.
(With PTI inputs)
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