Leander Paes and his Spanish partner Tommy Robredo scored a straight set victory over Ivan Ljubicic and R Soderling to storm into the doubles semi-finals of the Euro 2,270,000 Hamburg ATP Masters Series on Friday. The unseeded Indo-Spanish pair won 6-2, 7-6 (3) to set up a semi-final clash with the second seeded duo of Canadian D Nestor and Nenad Zimonjic of Serbia, who downed fifth seeded combine of S Aspelin (Sweden) and James Knowles (Austria) 6-2 5-7, 10-8.
Paes and Bhupathi will stand on the opposite sides of the net in the quarter-final of the ATP Tour tennis event in Sydney on Thursday.
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga beat Dusan Lajovic 2-6, 6-2, 7-6(5), 6-2 to give France an unassailable 3-1 lead against Serbia and book their place in the Davis Cup final.
The Indo-Serbian pair will meet seeded Michael Llodra and Fabrice Santoro of France in the title match.
After two wins, the Indo-Serbian pair lost in their third outing in the Tennis Masters Cup doubles but qualified for the semi-finals.
The fifth seeded Indo-Serbian pair beat seventh seeds Wayne Arthurs and Paul Hanley in their second match of the Masters Cup tennis tournament.
The Indo-Serbian pair beat Mark Knowles-Daniel Nestor in their opening match at the ATP Masters Cup.
The fifth-ranked doubles pair lost to Jonathan Elrich and Andy Ram of Israel in the Paris Masters.
India's Rohan Bopanna and his partner Daniel Nestor grabbed their second ATP title.
The third seeds went down to the unseeded Croatian pair of Ivo Karlovic and Lovro Zovko at the Swiss Indoors tournament.
The Indo-Serbian pair shocked fourth seeds Michael Llodra and Fabrice Santoro in the semi-finals of the Madrid Masters on Saturday.
Paes and Nenad Zimonjic entered the semi-finals of the Madrid Masters beating Mahesh Bhupathi and Martin Damm on Friday.
The Indo-Czech pair thus set up a second round clash with Leander Paes and Nenad Zimonjic.
They will either face Bhupathi-Damm or the Bryan brothers in the second round of the Madrid Masters.
The top seeds rallied from a set down to beat Jonathan Erlich and Andy Ram of Israel in the doubles final.
They beat Katarina Srebotnik of Slovakia and Nenad Zimonjic of Serbia 6-4, 6-2 in the final at the US Open.
The top seeds were shocked by Tommy Haas of Germany and Jurgen Melzer of Austria in the \nPilot Pen tournament.
The defending champions will take on Nenad Zimonjic of Serbia and Elena Bovina of Russia in the mixed doubles final.
Leander Paes and Nenad Zimonjic beat the Bryan brothers 3-6, 7-6 (5), 7-5 in the quarterfinals.
While Leander Paes- Nenad Zimonjic crashed out in the quarterfinals of the Rome Masters
They won the Monte Carlo Masters doubles at Monaco after their third seeded opponents Bob and Mike Bryan conceded a walk-over in the final.
Fifth seeds Leander Paes and Nenad Zimonjic of Serbia entered the semi-finals of the Monte Carlo Masters, beating the Czech pair of Martin Damm and Radek Stepanek.
But Leander Paes and Nenad Zimonjic failed to make it to the second round in the Nasdaq Open tennis tournament.
The duo lost in the quarter-finals of the Pacific Life tennis tournament.
The duo would now take on top seeds Knowles and Nestor in the Pacific Life tennis championship.
Leander Paes and Nenad Zimonjic entered the second round of the Pacific Life Open tournament.
The second seeds beat the French combine of Jean-Francois Bachelot and Gregory Carraz in straight sets to enter the quarter-finals of the Chennai Open.
Paes, who is also India's Davis Cup captain, accepted a wild card offered to him.
The Indo-Belarussian pair beat Andrei Pavel of Romania and Nenad Zimonjic of Serbia Monetnegro in straight sets in the first round of the Paris Masters.
The Indo-Czech pair beat second seeds Mark Knowels and Daniel Nestor in the semi-finals.
The 33-year-old Aussie won a record ninth Wimbledon title when he and Jonas Bjorkman beat Julian Knowle and Nenad Zimonjic.
The third seeds were shocked by 16th seeds Julian Knowle of Austria and Nenad Zimonjic of Serbia and Montenegro in the men's doubles third round at Wimbledon.
The top seed suffered a shock defeat in the first round of the St Poelten Grand Prix to Serbian Nenad Zimonjic.
Rohan Bopanna and Aisam-ul-haq Qureshi finished runners-up at the ATP Sydney International after losing 6-7 (3), 6-7(3) to unseeded Canadian-Serbian combination of Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonjic on Saturday.
The Indo-Czech pair beat Leos Friedl of the Czech Republic and Mikhail Youzhny of Russia in the quarter-finals at the US Open.
The top seeds lost to seventh seeds Gaston Etlis and Martin Rodriguez of Argentina in the quarter-finals of the Monte Carlo Masters.\n\n
The Indo-Czech pair lost to France's Fabrice Santoro and Nenad Zimonjic of Serbia and Montenegro in the men's doubles semi-finals at Wimbledon.
Serbia's World No 2 Novak Djokovic has been left out of Saturday's doubles in the Davis Cup final against holders CzechRepublic, with Nenad Zimonjic and Ilija Bozoljac named to play against Tomas Berdych and Radek Stepanek.
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