Leander Paes and Martin Damm entered the semi-finals of the men's doubles at the US Open on Thursday when they got the better of Leos Friedl of the Czech Republic and Mikhail Youzhny of Russia.

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The sixth seeded Indo-Czech pair won 6-4, 4-6, 6-1 to set up a meeting with fourth seeds Paul Hanley of Australia and Kevin Ullyett of Zimbabwe, who defeated fifth seeds Fabrice Santoro of France and Nenad Zimonjic of Serbia 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 in another quarter-final.

The other semi-final will be between Australia's Ashley Fisher-Tripp Phillips of the United States and second seeds Jonas Bjorkman of Sweden-Max Mirnyi of Belarus.

Fisher-Phillips (Australia/United States) beat Paul Goldstein-Thomas of the United States 7-5, 6-4, while Bjorkman-Mirnyi accounted for Arnaud Clement-Michael Llodra of France 7-6(8), 6-7(6), 6-2 to make the grade.