Australian Open: Paes-Bhupathi storm into semifinals

January 26th, 2011 - 3:50 pm ICT by IANS  

Rohan Bopanna Melbourne, Jan 26 (IANS) India’s Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi stormed into the men’s doubles semifinals of the Australian Open tennis here Wednesday. The third-seeded Indian pair dispatched eighth seeded Michael Llodra of France and Nenad Zimonjic of Serbia 6-4, 6-4. Llodra and Zimonjic had beaten India’s Rohan Bopanna and Aisam-ul Haq Qureshi of Pakistan in the third round.

Paes and Bhupathi, who are playing together in a Grand Slam after nine years, next face second seeds Max Mirnyi of Belarus and Daniel Nestor of Canada.

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