It turned out to a good day for Indian tennis player Leander Paes and Rohan Bopanna his at Wimbledon as they entered the men's doubles semifinals at the all-England lawn tennis championships along with their respective partners partner Radek Stepanek and Frenchman Eduoard Roger-Vasselin. However, Mahesh Bhupathi and his Australian partner Julian Knowle failed to make it to the semis.
Fourth-seeded Paes and Stepanek revamped after losing the first set to 11th-seeded Serb Nenad Zimonjic and Frenchman Julian Benneteau, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3, 6-4. Bopanna and Roger-Vasselin defeated sixth-seeded Robert Lindstedt of Sweden and Canadian Daniel Nestor in a thrilling five-setter, 7-5, 7-6 (3), 6-7 (4), 6-7 (3), 6-2, last night.
Bhupathi, who had already announced this year as his last tour to the ATP lost to the Bryan twins from the US, Bob and Mike, in three straight tie-break sets, 7-6 (5), 7-6 (3), 7-6 (4) with Knowle.
Moreover, it remained a mixed day for India in the mixed doubles as its top woman player Sania Mirza and her Romanian partner Horia Tecau won their second round against German pair Julia Georges and Martin Emmrich 6-3, 6-4 in the tournament to justify their second seed. However, Paes and his Chinese partner Saisai Zheng lost to American Eric Butorac and France's Alize Cornet, 3-6, 3-6.
Sania and Tecau will next face Butorac and Cornet, who easily Paes and Zheng in the last match.
-With inputs from IANS
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