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Paes-Black in mixed doubles semis in Wimbledon

by Agency on July 3, 2009

Paescara 300x231 Paes Black in mixed doubles semis in Wimbledon 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 on Thursday.

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.

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