Tennis: BRD Nastase Tiriac Trophy (ATP) Thursday results, Friday schedule

Romanians Marius Copil and Adrian Ungur produced the day's surprise Thursday, defeating Florin Mergea and Rohan Bopanna in the BRD Nastase Tiriac Trophy doubles on the BNR Arenas of Bucharest and thus qualifying to the semifinal.

Adrian Ungur (left) and Marius Copil (right) celebrate after winning a point during their Thursday match against Bopanna and Mergea
Photo credit: (c) Grigore POPESCU / AGERPRES PHOTO

Mergea and Bopanna were favourites after the withdrawal of the seed 1 double Horia Tecau and Jean-Julien Rojer. Copil and Ungur managed a spectacular comeback from 2-5 to 5-5 in the second set, which they eventually won in the tiebreak to end 6-4, 7-6 (6). In the semifinal they will play against Britons Colin Fleming and Jonathan Marray.

Copil and Ungur are the only Romanians still present in the 439,000 euros tournament.

Thursday's results:
singles, round of 16
Simone Bolelli (Italy / seed 8) ? Andreas Haider-Maurer (Austria) 6-4, 6-4
Gael Monfils (France / seed 2) ? Mihail Iujnii (Russia) 6-1, 6-2
Gilles Simon (France) ? Janko Tipsarevic (Serbia) 7-5, 6-4
Daniel Gimeno-Traver (Spain) ? Nikola Mektic (Croatia) 7-5, 6-2
doubles, quarterfinals
Marius Copil/Adrian Ungur ? Rohan Bopanna (India)/Florin Mergea (Romania / seed 2) 6-4, 7-6 (6)
Nicholas Monroe (USA)/Artem Sitak (New Zealand) ? Raven Klaasen (South Africa)/Lukas Rosol (Czech Republic / seed 3) 6-1, 6-2
Colin Fleming/Jonathan Marray (UK) ? Treat Huey (Philippines)/Scott Lipsky (USA / seed 4) 2-6, 6-3, 10-8
Simone Bolelli (Italy)/Steve Darcis (Belgium) ? Dusan Lajovic (Serbia)/Diego Schwartzman (Argentina) 7-5, 7-5

Friday schedule:

Central Court (12pm)
Ivo Karlovic (Croatia / seed 3) ? Jiri Vesely ...