Wimbledon, July 02: Top seeds Leander Paes and his
Zimbabwean partner Cara Black breezed into the semifinals of
Wimbledon's mixed doubles event with a facile straight set win
over 11th seeded Andre Sa and Ai Sugiyama here today.
The Indo-Zimbabwean duo needed a little over an hour to
swamp the Sa-Sugiyama pair 6-3, 6-3 in the lop-sided
quarterfinal match.
In the semifinals, they will take on 12th seeded pair of
Australian Stephen Huss and his Spaniard partner Virginia
Ruano Pascual.
The Huss-Pascal duo defeated humbled fourth seeds Kevin
Ullyett and Su-Wei Hsieh 6-3, 5-7, 9-7 in a hard-fought
quarterfinal match.
Bureau Report
First Published: Thursday, July 02, 2009, 23:40