leander Paes and Rohan Bopanna entered the French Open men’s doubles quarterfinals along with their respective partners after posting contrasting victories.
The sixth seeded Indo-Romanian pair of Bopanna and Florin Mergea defeated Marcus Daniell and Brian Baker 6-2 6-7 (4) 6-1, while 16th seeds Paes and Marcin Matkowski stunned fourth seeded combination of Bruno Soares and Jamie Murray 7-6 (5) 7-6 (4).
In another match, Paes and his Polish partner converted one break chance that they got in the opening set and eventually clinched it after it went into a tie breaker.
The No. 1 women’s double pairing of Martina Hingis and Sania Mirza were knocked out of the French Open, losing 6-3, 6-2 to the Czech team of Barbora Krejcikova and Katerina Siniakova.