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Leander Paes wins US Open Mixed Doubles

India’s Leander Paes and Zimbabwe’s Cara Black won the US Open mixed doubles title on Thursday, defeating Britain’s Jamie Murray and American Liezel Huber 7-6 (8/6), 6-4 in the final.

The victory means that Paes has now completed a career mixed doubles Grand Slam as he also won the French Open and Wimbledon alongside American Lisa Raymond in 1999 and the Wimbledon and Australian Open crowns in 2003 with US star Martina Navratilova.

Both Black, 29, and Paes, 35, have a chance for one more title this week at Flushing Meadows. Paes and his Czech partner Lukas Dlouhy have advanced to Friday’s US Open men’s doubles final, where they will face US brothers Mike and Bob Bryan while Black and Huber are top-seeded partners in women’s doubles, where they have advanced to the semi-finals as they hope for a chance to play 2005 US Open winners Raymond and Samantha Stosur of Australia in Sunday’s final.

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