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MADRID: Aisam Ul-Huq Qureshi will face above accomplice and acceptable acquaintance Rohan Bopanna on the cloister for the aboriginal time back their breach at the end of aftermost season.

Qureshi and Jean-Julien Rojer adored bristles bout credibility on their way to assault top seeds and four-time champions Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan 4-6, 6-4, 18-16 in 92 account on Thursday black to beforehand to
the quarter-finals of the ATP Madrid Open.

The duo, who won their aboriginal appellation as a aggregation aftermost week, will now accommodated 7th seeds Bopanna and Mahesh Bhupathi.

Qureshi and Rojer aboriginal had two bout point opportunities at 9-7 in the third set cool tie-break, again at 12-11 and 16-15 afore converting their fifth adventitious at 17-16. They adored bout credibility at 9-10, 10-11, 12-13, 13-14 and 14-15.

Fifth seeded Leander Paes and Radek Stepanek additionally accomplished the aftermost eight. The Australian Open champions exhausted Richard Gasquet and Gael Monfils in beeline sets.

Spaniards Marcel Granollers and Marc Lopez agitated third seeds Michael Llodra and Nenad Zimonjic 6-4, 6-4 while sixth seeds Robert Lindstedt and Horia Tecau exhausted Frantisek Cermak and Filip Polasek 4-6, 7-6(7), 10-7.

Marin Cilic and Marcelo Melo agitated No. 8 seeds Jurgen Melzer and Philipp Petzschner, 7-6(1), 6-3.