Rohan Bopanna, Florin Mergea enter Sydney International final

Rohan Bopanna and Florin Mergea entered the final of the Apia International with a straight sets win over Thomaz Bellucci and Leonardo Mayer in Sydney on Friday.

Rohan Bopanna and his Romanian partner Florin Mergea entered the final of the Apia International with a straight sets win over Thomaz Bellucci and Leonardo Mayer in Sydney on Friday.

India’s Rohan Bopanna (L) and Romania's Florin Mergea beat the Brazilian-Argentine duo of Thomaz Bellucci and Leonardo Mayer to enter the Sydney final on January 15. (AFP file photo)

Seeded fourth, Bopanna and Mergea defeated their Brazilian-Argentine opponents 7-6 (8), 6-2 to progress to the summit clash of the the US$461,330 hard court tournament in the run up to the Australian Open.

Bopanna and Mergea will now face Jamie Murray of Great Britain and Brazil’s Bruno Soares in the final .

Soares and Murray had defeated the Polish pair of Lukasz Kubot and Marcin Matkowski 7-5, 2-6, 10-3 in the other semifinal.

Bopanna is defending champion at this event. He won the trophy last year with Canadian partner Daniel Nestor.

Bopanna later tweeted about the match.