ROME, ITALY - MAY 19: Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan of the USA in action against Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna of India during the mens doubles final on day eight of the Internazionali BNL d'Italia 2013 at the Foro Italico Tennis Centre on May 19, 2013 in Rome, Italy.
ROME, ITALY - MAY 18: Santiago Gonzalez of Mexico and Scott Lipsky of the USA in action against Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna of India in their doubles semi final match during day seven of the Internazionali BNL d'Italia 2013 at the Foro Italico Tennis Centre on May 18, 2013 in Rome, Italy.
ROME, ITALY - MAY 16: Jonathan Marray and James Inglot of Great Britain walk off court dejected after their straight sets defeat by Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna of India in their second round doubles match during day five of the Internazionali BNL d'Italia 2013 at the Foro Italico Tennis Centre on May 16, 2013 in Rome, Italy.
India's Rohan Bopanna stormed intothe quarterfinals of the men's doubles event of the Dubai DutyFree Tennis Championship, even as ace singles player SomdevDevvarman crashed out of the tournament here today.
The newly-formed Indo-American pair of Bopanna and Ramdefeated Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi of Pakistan and Jean-JulienRojer of USA in straight sets 6-4 6-4 in their opening roundmatch.
Bopanna and Ram will next play the winners of the matchbetween Romanian-Czech pair of Victor Hanescu and Lukas Rosoland Omar Awadhy and Hamad Abbas Janahi of UAE.However, it was curtains for India's Somdev Devvarman whobowed out in the pre-quarterfinals against Argentina'sJuan-Martin del Potro in straight sets.
Rohan Bopanna won hisfirst title of the season when he combined with Colin Flemingto claim the ATP Open 13 doubles trophy with a straight-setswin over Aisam-ul-haq Qureshi and Jeal-Julien Rojer.
The second seeded Indo-British pair edged past the topseeds 6-4 7-6 (3) in the summit clash of the 52,8135 hardcourt event.
Melbourne: India's Rohan Bopanna partnering Su-Wei Hsieh of Chinese Taipei lost their mixed doubles quarterfinal match of the Australian Open at Melbourne Park here Wednesday.
Playing against the Czech-Polish pairing of Kveta Peschke and Marcin Matkowski, Hsieh-Bopanna lost 2-6, 3-6 in 58 minutes at the Margaret Court Arena.
Though the Indo-Taipei duo were ahead when it came to the number of aces fired and winners, they lost out at crucial junctures not earning even a single break-point.
