The Indo-Belgian pair beat Thomas Johansson and Todd Perry 6-2, 6-7(4), 10-8 in the first round in Stockholm.
Argentine clay court specialist Coria failed to make an impression on grass and was dumped in the first round at Wimbledon.
Novak Djokovic had to work hard against Belgian qualifier Olivier Rochus to reach the Halle tournament final with a 7-6, 6-4 win on Saturday. The Serbian world number four will play Germany's Tommy Haas, who earlier beat Philipp Kohlschreiber in three sets.
The Indo-Belgian duo had earlier in the quarter-finals of the Stockholm Open shocked fourth seeds Jeff Coetzee of South Africa and Rogier Wassen of the Netherlands.
World number 14 Gasquet wrapped up the final in an hour and 26 minutes in humid conditions to win his first ATP title of the season.
Top seed Richard Gasquet easily beat fellow-Frenchman Fabrice Santoro while Belgian Olivier Rochus got the better of Rainer Schuettler in the semi-finals at the Kingfisher Airlines Mumbai Open.
Second seed Denis Istomin, third seed Marcos Baghdatis, giant-killer Oleksandr Dolgopolav Jr. and unseeded Lukas Lacko entered the semi-finals of the men' singles at the $125,000 Tashkent ATP Challenger, being played at the Olympic Tennis Stadium.
Mardy Fish overpowered Olivier Rochus with 17 aces to win the Newport International title 5-7, 6-3, 6-4 on Sunday.
World No 1 Roger Federer, playing his first match for six weeks, beat qualifier Olivier Rochus in straight sets on Monday to open his defence of his Swiss Indoors ATP title.
Former world number eight Marcos Baghdatis won the third ATP title of his career on Sunday with a 6-1, 7-5 victory over Belgian Olivier Rochus in the Stockholm Open final.
Roger Federer beat Belgium's Olivier Rochus 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 in the Estoril Open first round on Tuesday.
Big-serving American John Isner captured his second career ATP title after skipping his brother's wedding to beat Belgium's Olivier Rochus 6-3, 7-6 in the Hall of Fame Tennis Championship final on Sunday.
Australia has pinned its hopes on ageing warhorse Lleyton Hewitt to steer the country back into the Davis Cup's world group, naming him in both singles and doubles for their playoff against Belgium in Cairns this week.
Former champion and world number two Novak Djokovic was knocked out of the Sony Ericsson Open on Friday, falling 6-2, 6-7, 6-4 to Belgian Olivier Rochus in his opening match.
World number four Novak Djokovic eased past Austrian Juergen Melzer 6-1, 6-4 at the Halle tournamenton Friday to set up a semi-final clash with Belgian qualifier Olivier Rochus.
Leander Paes and Lukas Dlouhy beat Marcos Baghdatis and Olivier Rochus 6-2, 7-6 in the first round of the Gerry Weber Open.
The Indo-Pakistan duo will take on third seeds Jarkko Nieminen of Finland and Robert Lindstedt in the championship round.
The American slumped to a 7-6, 2-6, 6-4 defeat by Frenchman Fabrice Santoro in the first round of the Lyon Grand Prix.
Ivan Ljubicic will take on Robin Soederling in Friday's other semi-final.
Holder James Blake survived his first serious test at the Stockholm Open, beating sixth seed Olivier Rochus of Belgium 6-7, 6-4, 6-2 on Friday to reach the semi-finals.
Seventh seed Nieminen needed 10 match points and almost three hours to subdue sixth-seeded Belgian Olivier Rochus and make the final of the Auckland Open.
Andy Roddick defeated French wildcard Thierry Ascione in the first round of the Lyon Grand Prix.
Thai Paradorn Srichaphan will take on James Blake in the final of the Stockholm Open.
Novak Djokovic quickly got back in the groove after his Australian Open triumph with a crushing defeat of Olivier Rochus as Serbia surged into a 2-0 lead in their Davis Cup, first round tie in Belgium on Friday.
The 2011 men's World Team Cup in Duesseldorf has been cancelled after organisers at the Rochus club failed to sign a sponsor, they said on Monday. 'We could not find a main sponsor,' tournament director Dietloff von Arnim told reporters. 'This is why with a heavy heart we decided not to stage the tournament. The financial hole and the risk linked to it were too great.'
Top seeds Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic all cruised into the quarter-finals of the Sony Ericsson Open with straight sets victories on Tuesday.
Home favourite Robin Soderling had to withdraw from his Stockholm Open semi-final on Saturday, sending Marcos Baghdatis through to the final without the Cypriot having to strike a ball.
World number one Rafael Nadal was handed a place in the last four of the Barcelona Open on Thursday after David Nalbandian was forced to withdraw from their quarter-final clash with a hip injury. The Spaniard earlier thrashed unseeded Belgian Christophe Rochus 6-2 6-0 and was due to play seventh-seeded Nalbandian in the last eight on Friday as he bids for a fifth straight title.
World number one Rafael Nadal began his campaign for a fifth successive Barcelona Open title with a comfortable 6-2 6-2 victory over Portuguese qualifier Frederico Gil on Wednesday.
Top seed Andy Roddick outslugged fellow American Sam Querrey 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 to advance to the semi-finals of the Memphis Championships on Friday. In a battle between two booming servers, Roddick was broken just once while his opponent surrendered serve four times, which proved to be the difference. Roddick will now face Australian Lleyton Hewitt, who beat Belgian Christophe Rochus 6-2, 6-3 in their quarter-final match.
Roger Federer will begin his bid to equal Pete Sampras's record of 14 Grand Slam titles against Italian Andreas Seppi in the first round of the Australian Open next week. Top seed Rafael Nadal, who snapped Federer's record 237-week stint as world number one last August, will meet Belgium's Christophe Rochus after the draw was made at Melbourne Park on Friday.
Former world No 1 and second seed Lleyton Hewitt was shocked by the 143-ranked German in the quarter-finals of the Mumbai Open.
Roger Federer and Stanislas Wawrinka secured Switzerland a place in the 2009 World Group with a 4-6, 7-6(6), 6-3, 6-3 victory over Belgium's Olivier Rochus and Xavier Malisse.
However, Mahesh Bhupathi and his Czech partner Radek Stepanek were ousted by the French duo of Julien Bennetean and Richard Gasquet at the Pacific Life Open.
Top seed Nikolay Davydenko of Russia and second-seeded Croatian Ivan Ljubicic progressed into the second round of the $1 million Qatar Open in contrasting fashions on Tuesday.
Prakash Amritraj entered the main draw of the US $416,000 Hall of Fame Tennis Championships at Newport, Rhode Island.
An injury time goal by Bernard Pires helped Churchill Brothers to hold Salgaocar to a thrilling 3-3 draw.
They reached the fourth round of the Pacific Life Open on Monday.
In the Dubai Open semis, Federer plays Tommy Haas, while Youzhny takes on Robin Soderling.
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