Its an incredible story of two incredibly talented tennis players. In spite of the unfortunate happenings in their relationship as a doubles team, they still achieved things only a 'perfect' team could hope to achieve. So talented, they each were, individually! But together, they could only make us wonder about the possibilities had things not gone bad.
Credit goes to Leander for coming up with a dream of partnering with an Indian.
Credit goes to Mahesh that he decided to accept an offer a fellow Indian made( even though at that time he had not even made a mark for himself)
One can only wonder what then went wrong? Was it Rico?, Was the federation? Was it their parents? One can only guess.....
The support team(s) which included all those involved, bar no one, looked at the partnership as two separate individuals and not as one team.
Too bad nobody had the guts to point a finger at Mr. Khanna for the Doha fiasco. Why did he not invite Mahesh to a preparatory camp, since he had retired 3 months back?
Anyway, Lee and Hesh, you made us proud and it was so good while it lasted.
I hope the same does not happen to Satwik Sai Ranki Reddy and Chirag Shetty, but then they have not yet scaled the same heights badminton as these two did in tennis.....at least not yet.
