BALTIMORE -- The Texas Rangers reinstated outfielder Shin-Soo Choo from the 15-day disabled list Thursday and placed him in the leadoff spot against the Baltimore Orioles.Choo was placed on the DL on July 20 with lower back inflammation. He missed 13 games since serving as a designated hitter on July 19.Choo said he was ready to play five days ago, but being on the DL gave him extra time to heal.Throwing was the hardest part, he said. Hitting, I could have handled the bat.There was no need for him to go on rehabilitation assignment.If he had gone any longer, wed have thought about a rehab (stint), manager Jeff Banister said. Watching what we saw during simulated BP, live BP, we felt good where he was timing-wise.This was Choos third stint on the disabled list this season. 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A reading of the bare numbers itself paints a stark picture.Since the start of 2015, Paes has won just one mens doubles tournament and reached only two other finals on the ATP World tour - the tournament win came in Auckland as far back as January 2015; the two final appearances were in Chennai in the same month, and in Delray Beach in February 2015.His win-loss record over this period is a dismal 34-33. In seven Grand Slam tournaments since the start of 2015, Paes best result was reaching the quarterfinals at the French Open last month. In the other six slams, he has failed to get past the third round. His ranking has plummeted to 55. In fact, Paes performance chart dipped visibly in 2014 itself, when he won just one title all year, though he did reach the quarterfinals at the Australian Open and semifinals at Wimbledon.Quite clearly, after two-and-a-half decades on a fiercely competitive international circuit, most of which have been spent as an elite doubles specialist, Paes is falling behind dramatically.Although doubles players tend to play longer than their singles counterparts, at 43, Paes is now a veteran even by those standards. He is in fact one of only four players - Canadas Daniel Nestor, Serbias Nenad Zimonjic and Austrias Julian Knowle being the other three - who are over the age of 40 in the top-100 of the world doubles rankings.Astute observers of the game point out that a player such as Paes, who does not possess a big serve, cannot afford to be even half a step slower because as he gets older, younger and faster players will exploit any drop in agility.Next month, Paes will accomplish a long-standing ambition by competing in his seventh Olympic games at Rio de Janerio. Rohan Bopanna, Indias highest ranked doubles player currently, has reluctantly accepted the All India Tennis Associations (AITA) decision to partner him with Paes for the games, making it known that he preferred Saketh Myneni instead. Before Rio, Bopanna and Paes will join forces for the Davis Cup tie against South Korea in Chandigarh from July 15-17, hoping the match practice will give them the impetus to make a sstrong run at the Olympics.dddddddddddd.One of Paes biggest concerns over the last couple of years has been his inability to find a consistent partner. In 2015, Paes combined with 11 different players and has already had four different partners in the first half of 2016, including Marcin Matkowski of Poland, with whom he played at the French Open and Wimbledon.Paes last Grand Slam mens doubles title, at the US Open in 2013, came in the company of Radek Stepanek of the Czech Republic, with whom he also won the Australian Open in 2012. Since that partnership ended after the 2014 US Open, Paes has searched in vain for a reliable partner, unsuccessfully experimenting combinations with several doubles specialists including South Africas Raven Klaasen and multiple Grand Slam winner Daniel Nestor.With his ranking taking a nosedive and a string of early exits from tournaments in the first two months of this year, Paes was forced to take the unusual step of playing on the ATP Challenger tour, the level immediately below the ATP World tour where the elite players of the game ply their trade.He featured in five such events from March to May, winning one in Busan, South Korea with Australias Sam Groth and reaching a final in Leon, Mexico, also with Groth. Since then, Paes has only played at the two Grand Slams - French Open and now Wimbledon, failing to carry forward the momentum he sought to build on the Challenger tour.Ironically, while his results on the mens doubles circuit have been steadfastly unimpressive, Paes has been in scorching form in the mixed doubles. With Martina Hingis, Paes has won four Grand Slam tournaments since the start of 2015 and the pair will attempt to defend their title at Wimbledon over the coming week.However, mixed doubles is only played at the Grand Slams and offers no ranking points, so even spectacular results such as the ones achieved by Paes, do not count for much in the week in-week out routine of the circuit.It is unclear what lies beyond Rio for Paes. His future has been the subject of intense speculation for a number of years but Paes has soldiered on gamely, shutting up doubters often with sparkling performances. But now, at the back of this prolonged spell of disappointing outcomes, there can be no denying that he finds himself at the crossroads of his professional career. ' ' '