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Paes-Black in Wimbledon mixed doubles final

TimePublished on Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 01:21, Updated on Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 13:02 in Sports section

LAST HURDLE: The Indo-Zimbabwe pair beat their 12th seeded opponents in straight sets.

LAST HURDLE: The Indo-Zimbabwe pair beat their 12th seeded opponents in straight sets.


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London: Top seeds Leander Paes and Cara Black stormed into the final of Wimbledon mixed doubles event with a straight-set victory over Stephen Huss and Virginia Ruano Pascual on Friday.

The Indo-Zimbabwe pair beat their 12th seeded opponents 6-4, 6-4 in a 71-minute semi-final contest.

Paes and Black, who won the US Open mixed doubles last year, were rusty at the start and were broken in the second game by the Australian-Spanish pair who go up 2-0 and then 3-0.

The top seeds, however, fought back with stunning ferocity to break their opponents in the fifth and seventh games to pocket the first game 6-4 in 35 minutes.

The second set went on serves till the fourth game after which Paes and Black tightened their game to break their opponents once and pocket the set 6-4 in 36 minutes and the match.

In the summit clash, Paes and Black will meet the winner of the other semi-final match between ninth seeds Mark Knowles (Bahamas)/Anna-Lena Groenefeld (Germany) and unseeded Jamie Murray (Great Britain)/Liezel Huber (USA).

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