Paes in mixed doubles final but Bhupathi out

Leander Paes and partner Cara Black made it to the US Open Mixed doubles final late yesterday night.

The second seeds beat the fifth seeded pair of Su-Wei Hsieh and Kevin Ullyet 6-2, 3-6, 10-5 at the Flushing Meadows. However, top seed Mahesh Bhupathi and Liezel Huber lost to the unseeded pair of Travis Parrott and Carly Gullickson 6-3, 6-4.

But thereu00a0 was joy earlieru00a0u00a0 in the day for Bhupathi as he and partner Mark Knowles outwitted Ivan Ljubicic and Michael Llodra 6-4, 4-6, 7-6 in the men's doubles quarters.

Before Bhupathi and Knowles, fourth seeds Paes and partner Lukas Dlouhy also made the semis beating seventh seeded Wesley Moodie and Dick Norman 6-3, 5-7, 6-4.