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<p align="center"><span style="font-size: 8pt">Leander Paes</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table>Leander Paes and his American partner Scott Lipsky advanced to the finals of ATP Heiniken Open in Auckland, New Zealand but it was curtains for Mahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles at the Sydney International after they lost in the doubles semi-finals yesterday.<br />u00a0<br />The second seeded Paes and Lipsky beat Australians Paul Hanley and Jordan Kerr 6-3 6-7 (4) 10-7 to set up a title clash with top seeded Czech-Swede duo of Martin Damm and Robert Lindstedt. <br /><br />Damm and Lindstedt sailed past the fourth seeded Czech-Slovak pair of Frantisek Cermak and Michal Mertinak 6-3 6-2 in their semifinal match of the hard-court event in Auckland. <br /><br />However, there was disappointment for Bhupathi and Knowles as the third-seeded Indo-Bahamian duo went down fighting 1-6 7-6 (4) 5-10 to second seeded Americans Bob and Mike Bryan in the semi-finals of the hard-court tournament in the build-up to the Australian Open, which starts on Monday.

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Leander Paes and his American partner Scott Lipsky advanced to the finals of ATP Heiniken Open in Auckland, New Zealand but it was curtains for Mahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles at the Sydney International after they lost in the doubles semi-finals yesterday.

Paes in Auckland final, but Bhupathi exits Sydney

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