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Assistants try to dry the court following a rain delay as Bethanie Mattek-Sands of the US and Horia Tecau of Romania play against Leander Paes of India and Elena Vesnina of Russia in their mixed doubles final on day 14 of the 2012 Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne on January 29, 2012. Mattek-Sands and Horia won 6-3, 5-7, 1-0 in a tiebreaker to take the title.

( PAUL CROCK/AFP/ Getty Images / January 29, 2012 )

Assistants try to dry the court following a rain delay as Bethanie Mattek-Sands of the US and Horia Tecau of Romania play against Leander Paes of India and Elena Vesnina of Russia in their mixed doubles final on day 14 of the 2012 Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne on January 29, 2012. Mattek-Sands and Horia won 6-3, 5-7, 1-0 in a tiebreaker to take the title.

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