India’s Leander Paes says that he plans to pursue an acting career when he retires. The 37-year-old recently announced that he and his former doubles partner, Mahesh Bhupathi, will team up again next year. But Paes is also looking ahead to the future and has begin shooting a movie, "Rajdhani Express."
"It's something exciting. It's something new," said Paes. "I can't keep playing tennis for the rest of my life. In India, I'm very lucky. I have a big following. I have a lot of people that enjoy what I do. Movies for me was a natural progression, to go from tennis to movies to entertain my fans. With the movies I'm just learning, I'm an apprentice. Right now I'm doing a serious drama movie, there's not one song where I have to dance in it. Thank God.”—Matthew Cronin