Progress: Aisam, Bopanna march on

The pair make it through to Third round, with having history of being runners up last year in the same competition.

Aisamul Haq Qureshi and Rohan Bopanna advanced to the third round of the US Open in the doubles event getting the better of the American-German pair of James Cerretani and Philipp Marx 7-6, 7-6.

The fifth-seeded pair will now be up against the winner of the match between Columbians Juan Sebastian Cabal and Robert Farah and the Australian-Belarussian combination of Paul Hanley and Dick Norman in the third round.

The pair, runners-up here last year, had earlier beaten Americans Robby Ginepri and Rhyne Williams in the first round.



Published in The Express Tribune, September 4^th, 2011.