Paes-Black cruise into final at Wimbledon

Top seeds Leander Paes [ Images ] and Cara Black [ Images ] stormed into the final of Wimbledon's [ Images ] mixed doubles event with a straight-set victory over Stephen Huss and Virginia Ruano Pascual on Friday.

The Indo-Zimbabwe pair beat their 12th seeded opponents 6-4, 6-4 in a little over 70 minutes.

In the final, Paes and Black will meet the winner of the other semi-final between ninth seeds Mark Knowles [ Images ] (Bahamas)/Anna-Lena Groenefeld (Germany [ Images ]) and unseeded Jamie Murray (Great Britain)/Liezel Huber (USA).

Paes, who won the French Open [ Images ] men's doubles crown earlier this month, is in line for his 10th major. From Wimbledon, he already has two mixed doubles titles -- with Lisa Raymond [ Images ] in 1999 and Martina Navratilova in 2003 -- and the men's doubles in 1999 with Bhupathi.

Paes and Black, who won the US Open [ Images ] mixed doubles last year, were rusty at the start and broken in the second game by the Australian-Spanish pair, who went 3-0 up. However, they fought back with stunning ferocity and broke back in the fifth and seventh games to pocket the first set 6-4 in 35 minutes.

The second set went on serve till the fourth game. Paes and Black tightened their game to break in the fifth and pocket the set 6-4 in 36 minutes and wrap the match.