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Bopanna-Qureshi in semis
Top seeds Mahesh Bhupathi of India and Max Mirnyi of Belarus were knocked out 3-6, 3-6 by Italians Andreas Seppi and Potito Starace in the doubles quarterfinals while India's Rohan Bopanna and Pakistan's Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi stormed into the doubles semifinals at Open de Nice.
Top seeds Mahesh Bhupathi of India and Max Mirnyi of Belarus were knocked out 3-6, 3-6 by Italians Andreas Seppi and Potito Starace in the doubles quarterfinals while India's Rohan Bopanna and Pakistan's Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi stormed into the doubles semifinals at Open de Nice. Bopanna and Quereshi dispatched Britons Colin Fleming and Ken Skupski 6-3, 6-3.
The Indo-Pak pair now play Czech Leos Friedl and Serbia's Dusan Vemic.
Asian games tickets go on sale
The first batch of tickets to the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou went on sale Thursday, with 200,000 made available out of the two million expected to be sold worldwide.
Eighty-five percent are priced between 1.50 US dollars and 58 dollars, organisers said, although the sought-after opening and closing ceremony seats cost as much as 995 dollars.
The launch follows the postponement of ticket sales in March, when competition schedules were still not set in stone. Tickets can be bought online at tickets.gz2010.cn
