US Open: Paes, Black lose in mixed doubles finalSeptember 10th, 2009 NEW YORK - India's Leander Paes and Cara Black of Zimbabwe were outclassed by Americans Travis Parrott and Carly Gullickson 2-6, 4-6 in the mixed doubles final of the US Open tennis tournament here Thursday. Defending champions Paes and Black struggled to find their rhythm and hardly put up a fight going down in just over an hour against wild cards Parrott and Gullickson, who won their maiden Grand Slam title together.
Paes-Black lose in Wimbeldon mixed doubles finalJuly 5th, 2009 LONDON - Top seeds Leander Paes and his Zimbabwean partner Cara Black lost in the final of Wimbeldon mixed doubles here Sunday. The ninth seeds Bahamian Mark Knowles and his German partner Anna-Lena Groenefeld stunned everyone as they hit back from 5-2 down in the first set to win eight games in a row and earn a 7-5, 6-3 victory over title favourites.
Knowles, Groenefeld win Wimbledon mixed doubles title over Paes, BlackJuly 5th, 2009 Knowles, Groenefeld win mixed doubles titleWIMBLEDON, England — Mark Knowles of the Bahamas and Anna-Lena Groenefeld of Germany won the mixed doubles titles at Wimbledon on Sunday by beating top-seeded Leander Paes of India and Cara Black of Zimbabwe 7-5, 6-3. Knowles has won the men's doubles titles at the other three Grand Slam tournaments, but he had never before won at Wimbledon.
Paes-Black lose Wimbledon Mixed Doubles FinalJuly 5th, 2009 LONDON - India's Leander Paes and Cara Black of Zimbabwe went down to Mark Knowles of Bahamas and German Anna-Lena Groenefeld 5-7, 3-6 in the Wimbledon mixed doubles final here Sunday. The top-seeded pair of Paes and Black were eyeing their second Grand Slam title together after winning the US Open last year.
Paes-Black in Wimbledon finalJuly 3rd, 2009 LONDON - India's Leander Paes is in sight of his second Grand Slam title of the year after he along with Zimbabwe's Cara Black booked a final berth in the mixed doubles of the Wimbledon tennis championships here Friday. In the semi-final, the top-seeded pair of Paes and Black won 6-4, 6-4 against the 12th seeded Stephen Huss of Australia and Spaniard Virginia Ruano Pascal.
Paes-Black enter Wimbledon mixed doubles semi-finalsJuly 2nd, 2009 LONDON - India's Leander Paes and Cara Black of Zimbabwe defeated Brazil's Andre Sa and Ai Sugiyama of Japan 6-3, 6-3 to storm into the semi-finals of Wimbledon mixed doubles here Thursday. The top seeded Paes and Black took just over an hour to clear the quarterfinal stage.
Wimbledon: Paes-Black beat Bhupathi-Sania in mixed doublesJune 30th, 2009 LONDON - It was Leander Paes who won the much hyped battle against his estranged doubles partner Mahesh Bhupathi in the Wimbledon mixed doubles. Paes partnering Cara Black of Zimbabwe defeated Bhupathi and Sania Mirza 6-2, 6-7 (2) 6-3 to move into the quarter-final Monday night.
Paes, Bhupathi to cross swords in Wimbledon mixed doublesJune 28th, 2009 LONDON - India's Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi will be on the opposite sides of the net in the Wimbledon mixed doubles third round Monday. The 1999 Wimbledon men's doubles champions have run into each other after clearing their second round matches Saturday.
Paes crashes out, Sania stays afloat in doublesJune 25th, 2009 LONDON - French Open champions Leander Paes and Lukas Dlouhy of the Czech Republic crashed out of the Wimbledon tennis championships in a sensational first-round loss to American James Blake and Mardy Fish 6-4, 6-4, 6-3 in the men's doubles here Thursday. However, India's Sania Mirza and Chia-Jung Chuang of Chinese Taipei sailed into the women's doubles second round with a 6-4, 6-2 victory over American Jill Craybas and Carly Gullickson.
Paes and Dlouhy stunned by Blake and FishJune 25th, 2009 LONDON - French Open winners Leander Paes and Lukas Dlouhy of the Czech Republic crashed out of the Wimbledon tennis championships, overpowered by American James Blake and Mardy Fish 6-4, 6-4, 6-3 in a sensational first-round men's doubles match here Thursday. Third seeded Paes and Dlouhy were drowned in a sea of errors to lose in an hour and 49 minutes.
Venus Williams says the only true love in her life is WimbledonJune 22nd, 2009 LONDON - Venus Williams is not willing to trade the part of her heart that belongs to Wimbledon, for the tennis ace admits it is the only true love in her life. The 29-year-old single champ, who presently reigns Wimbledon and Australian Open doubles, said that the Championship comes before anything else.
Wimbledon: Indian expectations rest on doublesJune 21st, 2009 LONDON - The singles have always seemed to be a low priority for Indian players in tennis. So even though the famous Wimbledon, beginning Monday, spreads out the favoured Indian surface in grass, it is the doubles on which the country will be pinning its hopes.
French Open 2009 winnersJune 7th, 2009 PARIS - Title-winners at the 15.5-million-euro French Open which ended Sunday:
Men's singles: Roger Federer, Switzerland
Women's singles: Svetlana Kuznetsova, Russia
Men's doubles: Lukas Dlouhy, Czech Republic-Leander Paes, India
Women's doubles: Anabel Medina Garrigues-Virginia Ruano Pascual, Spain
Mixed doubles: Liezel Huber-Bob Bryan, US
Paes, Dlouhy win French Open doublesJune 6th, 2009 PARIS - India's Leander Paes and Czech Lukas Dlouhy rallied from a set down to overpower South African Wesley Moodie and Belgian Dick Norman to clinch the French Open doubles title at Roland Garros here Saturday for their first Grand Slam together. Third-seeded Paes and Dlouhy won 3-6, 6-3, 6-2 to triumph in an hour and 40 minutes.
Paes-Black out of French Open mixed doublesMay 31st, 2009 PARIS - India's Leander Paes and Zimbabwean Cara Black crashed out of the French Open tennis' mixed doubles second round, losing 0-6, 6-1, 6-10 to Austrian Sybille Bammer and Lukasz Kubot of Poland. The second-seeded Indo-Zimbabwean pair and the US Open champions made a strong comeback to make it set-all but could hit only 5 winners in the super-tiebreak to go down in little over an hour here Saturday.
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