London: This time there will be two Indians
competing in the men's doubles semifinals at Wimbledon on Thursday.
While India's Rohan Bopanna and his French partner Edouard
Roger-Vasselin went through to the last four earlier on Tuesday,
fourth-seeds Leander Paes and Czech Radek Stepanek completed their
rain-interrupted match later in the evening.
Paes and Stepanek rallied for a 4-6, 6-4, 6-3, 6-4 win over
Serbia's Nenad Zimonjic and Frenchman Julien Benneteau, to set up a last
four clash with 12th seeds Ivan Dodig of Croatia and Marcelo Melo of
Brazil.
Bopanna and Vasselin go up against the top-seeds Bob and Mike Bryan
who ousted India's Mahesh Bhupathi, who played his last match at
Wimbledon on Tuesday, and Austria's Julien Knowle 7-6 (5), 7-6 (3), 7-6
(4).
There was more success for India in the mixed-doubles on Wednesday
as the second seeds in the competition - India's Sania Mirza and
Romania's Horia Tecau - and seventh seeds Bopanna and China's Jie Zheng -
moved into the last eight.
Sania and Tecau blasted past American Eric Butorac and France's
Alize Cornet 6-1, 7-5 in one hour. Sania served out the match for the
second seeds, who now await the winners of the third round clash between
Zimbabwe's Cara Black and Pakistan's Aisam Qureshi and eighth-seeds
Daniel Nestort and Kristina Mladenovic.
Bopanna, playing with Jie Zheng, seeded seventh, came through 7-6
(7-4), 3-6, 6-1 against Johan Brunstorm of Sweden and Katolin Marosi of
Hungary.
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