French Open: Bhupathi, Mirza vs Paes, Vesnina in semifinal
In French Open Tennis, the Indian duo of Mahesh Bhupathi and Sania Mirza and the Indo-Russian pair of Leander Paes and Elena Vesnina will play their Mixed Doubles semifinal matches in Paris today.
For a place in the finals, seventh seeded Bhupathi and Sania are scheduled to take on Italy’s Danielle Bracialli and his partner from Kazakhstan Galina Voskoboeva, while fifth seeds Paes and Vesnina will clash with the Mexican-Polish pair of Santiago Gonzalez and Klaudia Jans-Ignacik.
Yesterday, Leander Paes and his Russian partner Elena Vesnina stormed into the Mixed Doubles semi-finals, beating the top seeded Belarusian-American combine of Mix Mirnyi and Liezel Huber, 4-6, 7-5, 10-5.
Earlier, the Indian duo of Mahesh Bhupathi and Sania Mirza had also made it to the Mixed Doubles last four, after defeating the American-Czech duo of Mike Bryan and Kveta Peschke, 6-2, 6-3.
In yesterday’s other results, Serbia’s World Number One Novak Djokovic and Swiss Roger Federer booked the Men’s Singles semi-final berths. Today, second seeded Spaniard Rafael Nadal and Briton Andy Murray will slug it out for the remaining two Men’s Singles semi-final slots.
In Women’s Singles, Australia’s Samantha Stosur and Sara Errani of Italy made it to the last four stage. Second seeded Russian Maria Sharapova and Czech Petra Kvitova are slated to play their Women’s Singles quarterfinal matches today.
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