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Paes-Black cruise into final at Wimbledon
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July 03, 2009 23:52 IST

Top seeds Leander Paes [Images] and Cara Black [Images] stormed into the final of Wimbledon's [Images] 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 little over 70 minutes.

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

Paes, who won the French Open [Images] men's doubles crown earlier this month, is in line for his 10th major. From Wimbledon, he already has two mixed doubles titles -- with Lisa Raymond [Images] in 1999 and Martina Navratilova in 2003 -- and the men's doubles in 1999 with Bhupathi.

Paes and Black, who won the US Open [Images] mixed doubles last year, were rusty at the start and broken in the second game by the Australian-Spanish pair, who went 3-0 up. However, they fought back with stunning ferocity and broke back in the fifth and seventh games to pocket the first set 6-4 in 35 minutes.

The second set went on serve till the fourth game. Paes and Black tightened their game to break in the fifth and pocket the set 6-4 in 36 minutes and wrap the match.


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