India, Pakistan duo reach US open final
The Indo-Pak pair of Rohan Bopanna and Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi reached the final of a Grand Slam for the first time in their career. They scored a facile 7-6, 6-4 win over Argentines Eduardo Schwank and Horacio Zeballos at the US Open Tennis tournament in New York.
The Indo-Pak duo, seeded 16th, beat the unseeded Argentine pair in the semi-finals yesterday. The Indo-Pak express will now take on the Bryan brothers in the decider.
Top seeds and two-time champions Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan advanced to the final with a 6-1, 6-4 win over the Spanish duo of Marcel Granollers and Tommy Robredo.
Bopanna and Qureshi had earlier scored a 7-5, 7-6 win over 10th seeds Wesley Moodie and Dick Norman in the quarter-finals. Bopanna is the only Indian left in the draw and was delighted with his good run in the last Grand Slam of the season.
Congratulating Rohan Bopanna and Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi for reaching the doubles final, Sports Minister M S Gill today said the pair’s success should lead to better sporting ties between India and Pakistan.
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