Jennifer Paes

Jennifer Paes (née Dutton) is a former basketball player from India who captained the Indian national basketball team in 1982 and participated in the 1972 Summer Olympics. (There is no supporting evidence that she represented India in any Olympic competition. ) She accompanied her husband to the Olympics) She is mother of Leander Paes, India's top tennis player, and the wife of India's former field hockey player Vece Paes. Jennifer is the daughter of Michael Dutton and Ruby Myrtle Nyss of Calcutta 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.