New York:
Indian tennis stars Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi are hoping to compete against each other
in the doubles finals of the US OPen at Flushing Meadow after entering the semi-finals
on Tuesday. Mahesh Bhupathi and his partner Mark Knowles of Bahamas outwitted
Croatian Ivan Ljubicic and Frenchman Michael Llodra in the men''s doubles quarter
final at US Open in New York on Tuesday. Bhupathi and Knowles could face Leander
Paes and his Czech partner Lukas Dloughy. Paes and Dloughy, seeded fourth, beat
seventh seeded Wesley Moodie of South Africa and Dick Norman of Belgium 6-3, 5-7,
6-4. The Paes-Dloughy pair will now meet top seeded Bob and Mike Bryan of United
States in the semi-finals. Paes and Zimbabwean Cara Black have booked their birth
in the mixed doubles final of the US Open by beating the fifth seeded pair of
Hsieh Su-wei, Taiwan, and Kevin Ullyett, Zimbabwe, in the semi-finals 6-2, 3-6,
10-5.
