Top tennis player of India Leander Paes and Zimbabwean Cara Black made place in the US Open mixed doubles finals. Paes and Black outplayed Su-Wei Hsieh and Kevin Ullyett 6-2, 3-6, 10-5. on the other hand other Indian player Mahesh Bhupathi and his partner Knowles out performed Ljubici and Llodra 6-4, 4-6, 7-6 in the quarter-finals. Meanwhile Paes and Lukas Dlouhy entered in the semifinal of the gala event.
Earlier in mixed doubles match, the Indo-Zimbabwean pair started off well as they clinched the first set 6-2 quite easily but their opponents bounced back to level the scores 1-1 by claiming the second set 6-3. Paes-Black had to fight it out in the marathon final set, which went on for 15 games, to make their way into the finals as they sealed the set and the match 10-5 in their favour. Earlier on Monday, Paes and Black had beaten Rennae Stubbs and Robert Lindstedt 7-5, 3-6 (10-6) to make it to the mixed doubles semi-finals.
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