Tennis stars Rohan Bopanna (L) and Denis Shapovalov (Photo | Tennis Canada Twitter) 
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Bopanna-Shapovalov pair enters Miami Open quarterfinals

The unseeded Indo-Canadian pair surprised Mektic and Pavic 6-3 7-6(3) in a second-round doubles match on Sunday.

PTI

MIAMI: India's Rohan Bopanna and his Canadian partner Denis Shapovalov stunned the top-seeded Croatian pair of Nikola Mektic and Mate Pavic in straight sets to enter men's doubles quarterfinals at the Miami Open tennis tournament here.

The unseeded Indo-Canadian pair surprised Mektic and Pavic 6-3 7-6(3) in a second-round doubles match on Sunday.

Bopanna and Shapovalov will now face the sixth-seeded pair of Wesley Koolhof of the Netherlands and Great Britain's Neal Skupski for a place in the semifinals.

Koolhof and Skupski defeated the Spanish-Italian combination of Pedro Martinez and Lorenzo Sonego 6-3 7-6(8) in the second round.

Bopanna and Shapovalov earlier registered a fighting 6-7(5) 6-2 10-3 win over Marceloa Avrevalo of El Salvador and Jean-Juien Rojer of Netherlands in the opening round of the ATP Masters 1000 event.

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