In the US Open Tennis, the Indo-Russian pair of Leander Paes and Elena Vesnina stormed into semi-finals of the mixed doubled event. They beat Polish-Belarusian combine of Marcin Matkowski and Olga Govortsova in the quarter-finals by 6-2, 6-4.In the Men Doubles pre-quarter-finals, the Indian duo of Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi also reached quarter finals. They beat Indo-Philippine combine of Somdev Devvarman and Treat Conrad Huey by 6-4,7-5.