Paes-Elena reach semifinal of French Open

India's Leander Paes and Elena Vesnina of Russia fought their way to the mixed doubles semifinals of the French Open over Max Mirnyi of Belarus and American Liezel Huber on Tuesday. Max and Liezel rode on their better first serve winning percentage and broke the Indo-Russian combo twice out of the three opportunity to have their nose ahead in the first set. In the end, the Indo-Russian pair saw off their rivals 10-5 in just a 10-minute tie-breaker. Sania Mirza and Mahesh Bhupathi of India also reached the mixed doubles semifinals after shocking second seeds Kveta Peschke and Mike Bryan 6-2 6-3 at Ronald Garros on Tuesday.