Leander Paes and Cara Black defeated Mahesh Bhupathi and Sania Mirza in wimbledon 2009.

India’s Leander Paes and Zimbabwe’s Cara Black beat the Indian pair of Mahesh Bhupathi and Sania Mirza in their mixed doubles match of Wimbledon.

The Indo-Zimbabwean pair won 6-2, 6-7 (2) 6-3 to move into the quarter-finals. Top seeded Paes and Black with a double break pocketed the first set for a 1-0 lead. The second set went for a tie-breaker where Bhupathi and Sania prevailed to draw level.

Paes and Black, who won the US Open mixed doubles title last year, were clearly the better pair in a rare match and also took advantage of the unforced errors committed by their opponents.

Thirteenth seeds Bhupathi and Sania committed nine double faults as compared to just one by their opponents though the all-Indian pair sent down more number of aces (6 to 3).

Paes and Black got as many as eight break points in the first set out of which they converted two to win it in 35 minutes.
The US Open mixed doubles champions broke Bhupathi and Mirza twice in the third set to close the match in just over two hours. The loss meant the end of Sania's challenge in Wimbledon this year. The 22-year-old Hyderabadi girl had bowed out of the second round of both singles and doubles event.


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