In a double delight for Indian fans, veteran tennis star Leander
Paes and Sania Mirza stormed into the finals of the US Open
mixed doubles and women’s doubles draw respectively with
common partner Martina Hingis. Fourth seeds Paes and Hingis
were in top form as they staved off a tough challenge from the
second-seeded pair of Rohan Bopanna and Yung-Jan Chan of
Chinese Taipei 6-2, 7-5. Both the teams served four aces each but
the Bopanna-Chan combine suffered on the unforced errors count,
which was 12 as compared to 9 from Paes and Hingis.
The Indo-Swiss pair will now face the US duo of Bethanie
Mattek-Sands and Sam Querrey. Earlier Hingis combined superbly
with Sania as the duo made it look relatively simple against the
Italian pair of Sara Errani and Flavia Pennetta 6-4, 6-1. The top-
seeded pair will take on the winner of the second semi-final match
between Casey Dellacqua (Australia) Yaroslava Shvedova
(Kazakhstan) and Anna-Lena Groenefeld (Germany)-Coco
Vandeweghe (USA). Both the Indian players saw success on Court
17 as a host of nation’s tennis fans turned up to back their stars in
action. Paes thanked all the fans, who came in numbers to support
the stars. “I thank all the Indians who came here to support me and
Martina and also Sania and Martina in the other game,” Paes said.
There was disappointment though in the Junior Girls Singles
category as Karman Kaur Thandi’s winning run ended against
Dalma Galfi in the third round. The 17-year-old Indian went down
against the second-seeded German 6-4, 7-6.
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