In US Open Tennis, the Indo-Russian pair of Leander Paes and Elena Vesnina will today take on the Polish-Belarusian combine of Marcin Matkowski and Olga Govortsova in the quarter-finals of the Mixed Doubles event. Paes and Vesnina defeated the duo of Poland's Mariusz Fyrstenberg and Yung-Jan Chan of Chinese Taipie in a tight second round match on Friday. In Men Doubles pre-quarter-finals, the Indian duo of Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi will today clash with the Indo-Philippine combine of Somdev Devvarman and Treat Conrad Huey. On Sunday, Rohan Bopanna and his Pakistani partner Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi advanced to the men's doubles quarterfinals, while the Indo-Russian pair of Sania Mirza and Elena Vesnina crashed out in Women's Doubles third round. Top players like Novak Djokovic of Serbia, Swiss Roger Federer, Denmark's Caroline Wozniacki and Serena Williams of the United States, will also play their respective pre-quarterfinal matches on Monday.
News On AIR | September 5, 2011 2:09 PM
Paes & Elena reaches mixed doubles quarter-final in US open