India's tennis icon Leander Paes, 47, remains optimistic about playing a record eighth Olympics at Tokyo in July this year despite having lost 11 months of his professional due to the Coronavirus-caused break. 

The winner of eight doubles and 10 mixed doubles Grand Slam titles made his Olympic debut along with Ramesh Krishnan at Barcelona, Spain in 1992 and won India’s only tennis medal, a bronze in singles, at the 1996 Atlanta Games.