Paes-Black make it to mixed doubles final
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 here on Friday.
The Indo-Zimbabwe pair beat their 12th seeded opponents 6-4, 6-4 in a 71-minute semifinal contest.
Paes and Black 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 the summit clash, they will meet the winner of the match between ninth seeds Mark Knowles of Bahamas and Anna-Lena Groenefeld of Germany and unseeded duo Jamie Murray of Great Britain and Liezel Huber of USA.
Serena Williams and Venus Williams paired up to sweep past top doubles seeds Cara Black and Liezel Huber 6-1, 6-2 to land a place in the women’s doubles final. They will meet third seeded Australian pair of Samantha Stosur and Rennae Stubbs who beat Spanish players Anabel Medina Garrigues and Virginia Ruano Pascual, seeded second, 6-7(3), 6-4, 6-2
