Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna, who need to improve their rankings to earn a direct entry into the London Olympics
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Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna came from a set down to win 2-6, 6-3, 10-8 against Michael Llodra of France and Nenad Zimonjic of Serbia and move into the semi-finals of the Sony Ericsson Open here.
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The sixth-seeded Indian duo took an hour and eight minutes to get the better of their third-seeded opponents. Although there was not much to choose between the two pairs, Bhupathi and Bopanna managed to hold on to their nerves and win points at crucial moments.
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Mahesh Bhupathi andu00a0Rohan Bopannau00a0came from a set down to win 2-6, 6-3, 10-8 against Michael Llodra of France and Nenad Zimonjic of Serbia. File Pic/PTI
The Indian combo, who had recently won the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships, saved as many as four breakpoints out of six against the French-Serbian pair.u00a0
The Indians will next take on the winner of the other quarter-final between the Polish-Serbian duo of Lukasz Kubot-Janko Tipsarevic and Max Mirnyi of Belarus and Daniel Nestor of Canada.
