 Leander Paes was paired with Vishnu Vardhan at the London Olympics 2012 , following the refusal of Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna to play with him at the Olympics . Paes threatened to withdraw from the Olympics rather than play with Vardhan , whose world ranking was 296 , but withdrew the threat a week later . Paes and Vardhan reached the second round of the tournament , losing to eventual silver medalists Michaël Llodra and Jo @-@ Wilfried Tsonga of France . 
