{"id":16951,"date":"2013-09-09T06:11:16","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T06:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=16951"},"modified":"2013-09-09T06:11:16","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T06:11:16","slug":"us-open-paes-stepanek-win-mens-doubles-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=16951","title":{"rendered":"US Open: Paes-Stepanek win men&#8217;s doubles title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-4063\" style=\"margin-right: 6px; margin-left: 6px; float: left;\" alt=\"paes-stepanek 1\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/paes-stepanek_1.jpg\" height=\"200\" width=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/paes-stepanek_1.jpg 200w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/paes-stepanek_1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>New York:<\/strong> Age is just a number and Leander Paes proved this once again. The Indian, who has already crossed 40, along with his partner Radek Stepanek clinched their second Grand Slam as a team when they beat Alexander Peya and Bruno Soares&nbsp; in the US Open men&#8217;s doubles final here on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Fourth seeds Paes and Stepanek took just one hour and 12 minutes to beat second seeds Peya and Soares the 6-1, 6-3.\n<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the Indian\/Czech team&#8217;s fifth title together, and second major following victory at the 2012 Australian Open. Paes dedicated Sunday&#8217;s win to Richard Leach, the father of his coach Rick, and a former tennis coach at the University of Southern California.<\/p>\n<p>It is the eighth men&#8217;s doubles Grand Slam title for the 40-year-old Paes who won in New York in 2006 and 2009 with Martin Damm and Lukas Dlouhy respectively, both also from the Czech Republic. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This one really means a lot to me, because through this year we both had to handle a lot of adversity,&#8221; said Paes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I never lost the belief that I could come back and [Leander] was always in my corner, waiting for me,&#8221; said Stepanek, who underwent spinal surgery earlier this year. It&#8217;s third-time lucky for the 34-year-old Stepanek, who finished as runner-up in 2002 and 2012, partnering Jiri Novak and Paes respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The winners will split $460,000 for winning the men\u2019s doubles title this year. This is the first US Open title for Stepanek and the eighth Grand Slam men&#8217;s doubles title for Paes, as well as his 14th Slam overall.<\/p>\n<p>The Indian-Czech pair also leap from No. 22 to No. 4 in the Emirates ATP Doubles Team race to London and now seem like a sure bet to qualify for the season-ending championships. Stepanek is also projected to rise to No. 5 in the ATP World Tour doubles rankings, while Paes is projected to move up to No. 6. Peya and Soares will remain at No. 3 and No. 4, respectively.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Courtesy: www.atpworldtour.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-4063\" style=\"margin-right: 6px; margin-left: 6px; float: left;\" alt=\"paes-stepanek 1\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/paes-stepanek_1.jpg\" height=\"200\" width=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/paes-stepanek_1.jpg 200w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/paes-stepanek_1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>New York:<\/strong> Age is just a number and Leander Paes proved this once again. The Indian, who has already crossed 40, along with his partner Radek Stepanek clinched their second Grand Slam as a team when they beat Alexander Peya and Bruno Soares&nbsp; in the US Open men&#8217;s doubles final here on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Fourth seeds Paes and Stepanek took just one hour and 12 minutes to beat second seeds Peya and Soares the 6-1, 6-3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[4797,10400,376,377,4674],"class_list":["post-16951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-latest","tag-alexander-peya","tag-bruno-soares","tag-leander-paes","tag-radek-stepanek","tag-us-open"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>US Open: Paes-Stepanek win men&#039;s doubles title - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=16951\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"US Open: Paes-Stepanek win men&#039;s doubles title - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"New York: Age is just a number and Leander Paes proved this once again. 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