Jennifer Paes (

née The birth name is the name of the person given upon their birth. The term may be applied to the surname, the given name or to the entire name. Where births are required to be officially registered, the entire name entered onto a births registe ...

Dutton) is an

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n former

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player who captained the Indian national basketball team in 1982 and participated in the

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. She accompanied her husband, field hockey player Vece Paes, to the Olympics.

Early life

Jennifer is the daughter of Michael Dutton and Ruby Myrtle Nyss of

Calcutta Kolkata, also known as Calcutta (List of renamed places in India#West Bengal, its official name until 2001), is the capital and largest city of the Indian States and union territories of India, state of West Bengal. It lies on the eastern ba ...

and great-granddaughter of Bengali poet Michael Madhusudan Dutt. Her uncle Garney Nyss was an accomplished sportsman in multiple sports including field hockey, speed skating, athletics, cricket, badminton and tennis.

Personal life

She is married to India's former

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player Vece Paes. Their son is

Leander Paes Leander Adrian Paes ( ; born 17 June 1973) is an Indian former professional tennis player and the first Asian man to be inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame. He is regarded as one of the greatest doubles tennis players of all-tim ...

, India's top tennis player and Olympic medalist.

References

External links

Ministry of Sports and Affairs, Government of India
(archived 28 April 2005) Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Indian women's basketball players Sportspeople from Kolkata Bengali people Sportswomen from Kolkata 20th-century Indian women 20th-century Indian people Basketball players from West Bengal {{India-basketball-bio-stub