Indian tennis star Rohan Bopanna and his Indonesian partner Aldila Sutjiadi entered the semi-finals of the US Open mixed doubles with a hard-fought win over Australian Matthew Ebden and Barbora Krejcikova of the Czech Republic in Paris.
The eighth-seeded Indian-Indonesian pair registered a 7-6(4) 2-6 10-7 win over fourth seeds Ebden and Krejcikova in the quarterfinal that lasted for one hour and 33 minutes on Monday night.
Bopanna and Sutjiadi had earlier defeated the Australian duo - John Pears and Katerina Siniakova of the Czech Republic 0-6 7-6(5) 10-7 in a second-round match.
Bopanna and Sutjiadi will play the American pair of Donald Young and Taylor Townsend in the semi-finals.
The 44-year-old Bopanna had already crashed out of the men's doubles competition after he and his partner Ebden, seeded second, lost 1-6 5-7 to the 16th-seed Argentine duo - Maximo Gonzalez and Andres Molteni in the third round.
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