Leander Paes & Lukas Dlouhy win French Open Doubles Title

Paris: Leander Paes of India and his Chezch partner Lukas Dlouhy won the French Open Doubles Title. They beat Wesley Moodie of South Africa and Dick Norman of Belgium 3-6, 6-3. 6-2 in the final at Roland Garos. This is Leander Paes' third French Open title and overall 9th Grand Slam title. Leander and Dlouhy lost the first set, but made a comeback in the second and third set to win the match and title.

In the semifinals, Leander Paes and Lukas Dlouhy had beaten top seed Canadian-Serbian pair of Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonjic in straight sets, 7-6 (4), 7-6 (5). Paes had earlier lost in the mixed doubles in the second round. He and his partner Cara Black (Zimbabwe) lost 0-6, 6-1, 6-10 to Austrian Sybille Bammer and Lukasz Kubot of Poland.