kolkata tennis legend leander paes will wait for the game to start again in full flow on the other side of the covid19 pandemic before taking a call on his peerless career spanning three decadespaes who turned 47 recently had announced that 2020 would be his one last roar season and tokyo olympic games was expected to be his swansong event but the global pandemic crisis put paid to his plansright now the most important thing is health and safety now is not the right time to plan a full tennis calendar now is the time to look after our family and our community paes told ians in an exclusive interviewthe us open is supposed to happen in augustseptember the french open is slated for october but i am seeing the surge of covid19 cases going up in america for us indian players it is not possible to travel at the moment i feel global travel for a profession like tennis will only be completely safe once the vaccine is developed and availablein tennis we are playing a global sport we have to travel all over the world week after week we travel from airports to hotels to stadiums and public places to restaurants and hence in this situation it becomes difficult said paes who wants to leave behind a legacy by playing his eighth successive olympics which has now been postponed to 2021my whole team is enjoying a well deserved break after 30 years of hard work and we will evaluate the situation once the tennis tour realistically looks at starting in full flow again said the winner of 18 grand slamsthe vastness of this pandemic is quite astonishing neither you can see it and in many cases the virus sits asymptomatic within us humansthe message here is about social distancing wearing a mask so as to help not spread the virus and looking after ourselves our families and our societyas this lockdown extends week after week and we are all forced to adapt it is important to stay happy spend quality time interacting with our loved ones using our smart gadgets and phones and also reinventing ourselves to this new normalmany of us have been out of our jobs for more than five to six months now and stress depression and boredom become relevant it is important to keep a healthy daily routine incorporating a little physical fitness of walking and yoga and stretching and also engaging our minds with reading and healthy discussions with our family and peers it is important to take this time to introspect and reinvent ourselves to live a quality life and maximise all the dreams we have said paes who played his last tournament in the davis cup in croatiapaes expressed his concern on the huge global economic downturn in the wake of this pandemic and how that would affect every one of useven in relation to the tokyo olympic games which has now been moved to the summer of 2021 it