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6-year-old mistakes Leander Paes for dancer, tennis legend reacts

In an X (formerly Twitter) post shared on Thursday, the user named Prithvi shared the photo in which the girl had correctly identified Virat Kohli as a cricketer and Lata Mangeshkar as a singer, but matched Leander Paes' name to a dancer and Prabhu Deva's name to a tennis player.

March 22, 2024 / 14:44 IST
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The photo of the six-year-old girl identifying Leander Paes as a dancer. (Image credit; Twitter/Prithvi).

An X (formerly Twitter) user recently shared how his six-year-old niece mistook tennis legend Leander Paes for a dancer in a match the following exercise.

In a post shared on Thursday, the user named Prithvi shared the photo in which the girl had correctly identified Virat Kohli as a cricketer and Lata Mangeshkar as a singer, but matched Paes' name to a dancer and Prabhu Deva's name to a tennis player.

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"My 6yo niece thinks Tennis legend @Leander is a dancer," the user captioned the post on Thursday.
The man's post went viral and saw a lot of user comments, including one from Paes himself who shared a snippet from Bollywood superstar Salman Khan's iconic "O O Jaane Jaana" song and added a amusing twist by overlaying his face on the actor's face. He captioned his reply saying, "The rumours are true".
Some of the other users expressed relief that the man's niece had identified Kohli correctly.

"Thank God she got Virat Kohli right for your sanity's sake!" one user wrote.

"Atleast he got Virat Kohli right," another user wrote.

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