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Summary Aisam-ul-haq Qureshi and Rohan Bopanna on Monday cruised into quarter-finals of French Open.
Pakistani tennis star Aisam-ul-haq Qureshi and his Indian partner Rohan Bopanna advanced to the French Open mens doubles quarter-finals with a straight-set win over Andrey Golubev of Kazakhstan and Denis Istomin of Uzbekistan. The fifth seed Indo-Pak pair recorded a 6-3 7-5 win over their unseeded rivals in the third round in one hour and nine minutes.It will be the third quarter-final appearance in the last four Grand Slams for Bopanna and Qureshi. They will now clash with top seeded American twins Mike and Bob Bryan, who defeated Russias Teymuraz Gabashvili and Mikhail Kukushkin of Kazakhstan 7-6 (6) 7-5 in their pre-quarterfinal round. Bopanna and Qureshi had lost to Bryan brothers in the US Open final 2010.
