MELBOURNE, JAN 28: Top seeds Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi stormed doubles Grand Slam final when the crack Indian duo quelled the challenge of Ellis Fereira of South Africa and Rick Leach of United States in straight sets at the Australian Open tennis today.It will be a revenge clash for the Indians, who lost to eventual winners Bjorkman and Dutch Jacco Eltingh in the semifinal here last year.The Indians made their first doubles final in a Grand Slam in their fifth entry into the semifinals. Paes, 25, and the 24-year-old Bhupathi had stumbled at the last four stage at the U S Open in 1997 and fallen at that stage in the Australian and French OpensMeanwhile in the woman's singles, unseeded Frenchwoman Amelie Mauresmo staged a stunning Australian Open fightback today to upset World number one Lindsay Davenport 4-6, 7-5, 7-5 and reach her first Grand Slam tournament final.The big-hitting 19-year-old will play defending champion Martina Hingis in the final after ambushing Davenport for the secondtime in as many matches against the tall American.Hingis made relatively trouble-free progress to the final when she disposed off four-time Open winner Monica Seles 6-2, 6-4 to end a remarkable winning streak of 33 matches in Melbourne for the former number one.Talking about her surprise loss, Davenport said: ``A couple of times, I mean I thought was playing a guy. I mean she hits the ball not like any other girl. She hit it so hard and with so much top spin. Women's tennis isn't normally played like that.''Mauresmo's path to the final included wins over American Corina Morariu, eighth seed Patty Schnyder of Switzerland (second round) and Belgian 11th seed Dominique Van Roost (quarter-finals). Mauresmo is the first Frenchwoman to make the final in Melbourne since Hingis beat Mary Peirce in 1997 to take the first of her two successive Open titles.A successful junior, Mauresmo had never before made it past the third round of a Grand Slam but beat Davenport when they first met at the German Open lastMay.Top-seeded Davenport began confidently before Mauresmo battered the American with service winners and swarmed over her with brutal groundstrokes.
