WATCH | Tennis ace Leander Paes has sweetest birthday message for his daughter

Indian tennis ace Leander Paes is back from winning the Leon ATP Challenger series. With an illustrious 26-year career, Paes boasts of a whopping 55 titles. On Monday, he revealed the inspiration behind his will to keep going and winning.

Taking to the micro-blogging site Twitter, Paes posted a video with his daughter Aiyana from ex-partner Rhea Pillai. In honour of his daughter's birthday, Paes traded his racquet for a keyboard and played the 'Happy Birthday' tune as a duet with the kid.

Happy Birthday my darling Aiyana You inspire me to be the Best I can ever be...I am so Proud of you and Papa Loves you my princess . pic.twitter.com/OHPCQUlkwz

— Leander Paes (@Leander) April 3, 2017

He captioned the video: Happy Birthday my darling Aiyana You inspire me to be the Best I can ever be...I am so Proud of you and Papa Loves you my princess.

The proud father is now looking forward to playing against Uzbekistan in the Davis Cup match after Yuki Bhambri was ruled out on account of his knee injury.

Non-playing captain and Paes' former doubles partner Mahesh Bhupathi had put him and Rohan Bopanna in the reserves as his picked four singles players to lead the charge for India.