In mixed doubles finals, that ended just few minutes back from now, leander paes with his partner Cara Black from Zimbabwe won the Mised doubles finals championship.They defeated Ekaterina Makarova of Russia paired with Jaroslav Levinsky of Czech. They marked an easy win against both by 7-6, 6-3.
Paes and Black Pair was top seeded in this event and they did as per expectations. This win gave Paes and Black another grand slam title for him as well as for India. Paes has a total 46 doubles titles including six Grand Slam doubles and 5 Grand Slam mixed doubles crowns.
Cara Black also reached the Women’s doubles finals paired with Liezel Huber where she was easily defeated by Williams sister.
Leander Paes told that they were able to have 45 minutes practice before match and that was all required to warm up and sync with his partner Cara Black.
After winning this 11th Grand Slam title Paes equals the record of Mahesh Bhupathi being the India’s most successful player in Grand Slam Tennis.
In today’s match, Paes and Cara Black broke their opponents’ serve five times, but had their serve broken just two times.
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