Bopanna-Qureshi advance to second round
By IANSWednesday, August 18, 2010
MASON - India’s Rohan Bopanna and Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi of Pakistan edged past American wildcards Rajeev Ram and Bobby Reynolds 6-3, 1-6, 10-4 to enter the doubles second round of the $2,430,000 Western and Southern Financial Group Masters tennis.
The win Tuesday has now pitted them against eight-seeded Polish pair Mariusz Fyrstenberg and Marcin Matkowski who got a bye in the first round.
The third seeded pair of India’s Leander Paes and Czech Lukas Dlouhy, who got a bye in the first round, play America’s Mardy Fish and Mark Knowles of Bahamas in the second.
India’s Mahesh Bhupathi and Max Mirnyi of Belarus, seeded fourth, also got a bye in the first round and face Americans John Isner and Sam Querrey in the second.
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