PARIS: India's
Rohan Bopanna reached his first
Grand Slam
semifinal in seven years after he and his Dutch partner
Matwe Middelkoop
rallied to beat
Lloyd Glasspool
and
Henri Heliovaara
in the men's doubles quarterfinals of the
French Open, here.
The Indo-Dutch pair eked out a 4-6 6-4 7-6 (3) win over the British-Finnish combination in a hard-fought contest on Monday night.
Bopanna last reached the semifinals of a tennis Major at the 2015
Wimbledon Championships when he had teamed up with Romania's Florin Mergea and lost in a gruelling five-setter to Jean-Julien Rojer and Horia Tecau.
Bopanna, 42, and Middelkoop, 38, will face 12th seeds
Marcelo Arevalo
and Jean-Julien Roger on Thursday in the last four.
Bopanna and Middelkoop lost the opening set but dished out a superb fightback to win the next two to emerge victorious.
In the decider, the Indo-Dutch pair showed tremendous mental fortitude to fightback from 3-5 down to take the match to a Super Tie-break.
They were again 0-3 behind but won 10 straight points to come up trumps.
Bopanna and Middelkoop had saved five match points to knock out
Mate Pavic
and
Nikola Mektic
, the reigning Wimbledon champions, from the Roland Garros, on Saturday.
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