Leander Paes and Martin Damm staged a magnificent recovery to enter the men's doubles final at the US Open on Friday.

The sixth seeds fought back after losing the first set to beat fourth seeds Paul Hanley of Australia and Kevin Ullyett of Zimbabwe 6-7 (1), 7-6 (7), 7-5 in a nail-biting semi-final.

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Paes and Damm, who had in the quarter-finals beaten Leos Friedl of the Czech Republic and Mikhail Youzhny of Russia, the conquerors of top seeds Bob and Mike Bryan in the third round, will take on second seeds Jonas Bjorkman of Sweden-Max Mirnyi of Belarus in the final.

Bjorkman and Mirnyi had an easy time while beating Australia's Ashley Fisher and Tripp Phillips of the United States 6-1, 6-4 in the other semi-final.