Indo-Pak Express qualify for French Open quarter-finals

India's Rohan Bopanna (L) and Pakistan's Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (R) play against Kazakhstan's Andrey Golubev and Uzekistan's Denis Istomin during their men's double third round match in the French Open tennis championship at the Roland Garros stadium. PHOTO: AFP

Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi and  India’s Rohan Bopann moved on to Men’s Double quarter-finals on Monday, beating Kazakhstan’s Andrey Golubev and Uzbekistan’s Denis Istomin 6-3, 7-5.

Previously on Friday, Qureshi and Bopanna fought their way in to the third round of French Open men’s doubles after beating Argentine Maximo Gonzalez and Japan’s Kei Nishikori in a thrilling three-setter.

Earlier this month the duo made headway in the ATP rankings with Qureshi rising to a career-best 10 from 12 with 4080 points in the ATP doubles rankings.

Qureshi’s Indian partner, Rohan Bopanna achieved his career-best rank of 11 from 13 in the ATP doubles chart with 4050 points.

Rohan Bopanna and Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi are now at number seven in doubles team rankings with 1,575 points.