Paes-Dlouhy,Bopanna-Niemenin in final of different events

Leander Paes and Rohan Bopanna have made the doubles finals of different tournaments with their respective partners.

India had a good day on the ATP circuit with Leander Paes and Rohan Bopanna making the doubles finals of different tournaments along with their respective partners.

The second seeded pair of Paes and his Czech partner Lukas Dlouhy defeated fourth seeds Julian Knowles and Andy Ram 6-2 7-6 (4) in the semifinals of the euro 1,445,000 World Tennis tournament in Rotterdam,the Netherlands.

Continuing their sizzling run,Rohan Bopanna and Jarkko Niemenin dumped fourth seeded Stephen Huss and Ross Hutchins 3-6 7-6 (5) 10-5 to make the summit clash of the USD 600,000 SAP Open in California,United States.

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Paes-Dlouhy will now fight it out with Canadian Daniel Nestor and Serbia’s Nenad Zimonjic.

Bopanna and his Finnish partner will lock horns with Tommy Haas of Germany and Radek Stepanek of Czech Republic,who got a walkover from Americans James Blake and Mardy Fish.

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