India’s Rohan Bopanna and his Dutch partner Wesley Koolhof reached the semi-finals of the Doha Open with a straight set win in Doha on Wednesday.
The third seed Indo-Dutch team knocked out the Swiss-American duo of Stan Wawrinka and Frances Tiafoe 6-3, 6-4.
The winners next take on second seeds Henri Kontinen and Franko Skugor, who ousted the American team of Ken and Neal Skupski 6-7(2), 6-4, 13-11 in a tough quarter-final.
India’s Divij Sharan and his Kiwi partner Artem Sitak had lost the first round 6-7(4) 2-6 to French pair of Jeremy Chardy and Fabrice Martin at the USD 1,465,260 hard court event in the run-up to the Australian Open.
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