Tennis News
At Australian Open 2010, Melbourne

Mixed Doubles
[SF] (1) Cara Black (ZIM)/ Leander Paes (IND) bt (7) Lisa Raymond (USA)/ Wesley Moodie (RSA) 67(6) 76(5) 10-7

[F] (1) Cara Black (ZIM)/ Leander Paes (IND) vs Ekaterina Makarova (RUS)/ Jaroslav Levinsky (CZE)

Lee and Cara pulled off very close MXD semi-final ... Lee and Cara lost first set in tie-break with score 6-8 ... In second set early they were couple of breaks down and score was 0-3 ... But then they broke back to make it 1-3 and again they broke when opponents were serving for the match at 4-5 ... This time in tie-break they prevailed ... And in super tie-break they controlled from the start with early mini-break and were up 9-4 ... Converted 4th match point to moved in another MXD final.

They will face unseeded Russian-Czech pair, who surprised all with their performance.
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At $50K Honolulu Challenger, Hawaii, USA

Doubles
[QF] (1) Harsh Mankad (IND)/ Treat Conrad Huey (PHI) l Hiroki Kondo (JPN)/ Go Soeda (JPN) 46 62 (6)10
[QF] Purav Raja (IND)/ Adil Shamasdin (CAN) l Kevin Anderson (RSA)/ Ryler DeHeart (USA) 26 26

Our both pairs lost in quarter-finals ... Purav and Adil couldn't produced much fight in their match ... Harsh and Treat tried fightback after losing first set but lost in super tie-break against Japanese pair.