 Leander was born in Calcutta , India , on 17 June 1973 to a Goan father . Vece Paes and Jennifer Paes were his parents and he was raised in Kolkata ( Calcutta ) . He was educated at La Martiniere Calcutta , and the St. Xavier 's College of the University of Calcutta . His parents were both sports persons . Vece was a midfielder in the bronze medal @-@ winning Indian field hockey team at the 1972 Munich Olympics . His mother captained the Indian basketball team in the 1980 Asian basketball championship . Paes enrolled with the Britannia Amritraj Tennis Academy in Madras ( Chennai ) in 1985 , where he was coached by Dave O 'Meara . The academy played a key role in his early development . Leander earned international fame when he won the 1990 Wimbledon Junior title and rose to no . 1 in the junior world rankings . 
