Top seeds upset in U.S. Open mixed doubles

Unseeded Americans Carly Gullickson and Travis Parrott are enjoying quite a run at the U.S. Open. In the first round, they upset 6th seeds Nadia Petrova and Max Mirnyi. In the 2nd round, they defeated Sania Mirza and Daniel Nestor, and in the quarterfinals, they upset 3nd seeds Lisa Raymond and Marcin Matkowski.

Today, Gullickson and Parrott upset number 1 seeds Liezel Huber and Mahesh Bhupati to get to the final. Their opponents will be 2nd seeds Cara Black and Leander Paes.

Gullickson entered the women's doubles competition with partner Alexa Glatch. They were defeated in the third round by the 10th seeds, Maria Kirilenko and Elena Vesnina, after upsetting the 7th seeds, Hsieh Su-Wei and Peng Shuai, in the second round.