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India's tennis hero Paes returns home after recovering from brain ailment
October 7, 2003
NEW DELHI, India (AP) -- Leander Paes returned home Wednesday from the United States after recovering from a brain infection that blinded him during match at Wimbledon.
``I am feeling better and hope to come back to the court within two to three weeks,'' said Paes, the former doubles World No. 1, a Grand Slam winner and Olympic bronze medalist.
Paes had been being treated since August at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Orlando, Fla.
Tests found that he has neurocysticercosis, a parasitic infection that causes a brain abscess, and not brain tumor, as doctors had earlier concluded. A brain abscess is a mass of immune cells, pus and other material that can occur when the brain is infected by bacteria or fungus.
Paes, 30, won the mixed doubles title at Wimbledon with Martina Navratilova in July, but was forced to watch the U.S. Open the next month only on the television screen from his hospital room. He also was missed by his team in Davis Cup play last month against the Netherlands, in which India was wiped out 0-5 in Zwolle, Netherlands.
Paes said in August in Orlando that he first noticed symptoms, such as dizziness, during the mixed-doubles quarterfinal at Wimbledon when he was playing with Navratilova.
``I actually came up to hit a smash and when I landed on the ground, something must have shaken inside my brain because I lost all sight. I lost all control of my balance and I was falling down,'' he said. ``I caught Martina and I tried to hold her for stability ... That was the first time that had occurred.''
He had severe headaches last week and was given brain scans after being hospitalized. Doctors' initial diagnoses of a brain tumor were altered after biopsies and blood tests, which also were evaluated at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta and physicians in Bombay.
Paes is a household name in India, which has had few international sporting successes to report over the past decades apart from cricket, its most popular sport.
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