French Open - Paes and Dlouhy win men's doubles

Eurosport - Sat, 06 Jun 22:50:00 2009

India's Leander Paes and Lukas Dlouhy of the Czech Republic won the French Open men's doubles title with a 3-6, 6-3, 6-2 win over Wesley Moodie of South Africa and Belgium's Dick Norman.

India's Leander Paes, right, and Lukas Dlouhy after defeating South Africa's Wesley Moodie and Belgium's Dick Norman in the men's doubles final of the French Open AP - 0

It was 35-year-old Paes's fifth men's Grand Slam doubles title having won twice in Paris with compatriot Mahesh Bhupathi, once at Wimbledon again with Bhupathi and once at the US Open with Martin Damm.

"Dick and Wesley served really huge and made it difficult for us. They did a great job in getting to the final," said Paes who has now won 40 career doubles titles.

Paes and Dlouhy first teamed up at Roland Garros last year, losing in the last 16 to eventual champions Pablo Cuevas and Luis Horna.

They then finished runners-up to Mike and Bob Bryan in the US Open final.

"We started playing together at Roland Garros last year. We lost then to the champions so we made it a point that we would come back and try and win it this year," added Paes, who has also won four Grand Slam mixed doubles titles.

AFP

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  1. WELL DONE PAES & DLOUHY-----CONGRATULATIONS

    From moniz999, on Sun 7 Jun 5:30PM

  2. who cares its doubles

    From SQUEE, on Sun 7 Jun 4:51PM

  3. WELL DONE GUYS, I FIRST SAW LEANDER PLAYING BACK IN­ 2001 WITH MARESH IN MC, I SAW THEN HOW GREAT OF DOUBLES­ PLAYER HE IS. CONGRATULATIONS TO YOU BOTH, HOPE YOU­ WILL DO THE SAME IN WIMBLEDON.

    From ciliamaximo_30, on Sun 7 Jun 1:49PM
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