Scott Lipsky

The pair made up of Romanian tennis player Florin Mergea and Indian Rohan Bopanna has qualified on Thursday for the men's doubles semifinals of the 1,574,640 euro ATP tournament on the grass court of Halle (Germany), after defeating the couple made of Marin Draganja (Croatia)/Henri Kontinen (Finland), 7-6 (4), 7-6 (3).

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.

DOHA - Serbian tennis players Novak Djokovic and Filip Krajinovic scored a successful start in the men's doubles competition at the Doha ATP as they defeated Tunisia's Malek Jaziri and Jabor Mohammed Ali Mutawa from Qatar, 2-0 (6-1, 6-4).

NEW YORK - Serbia's Jelena Jankovic lest to Belinda Bencic from Switzerland 6(8)-6 6-3 in the 4th round of the US Open on Monday.

That match took two hours and the win made Bancic the second youngest quarterfinalist of in the history of the US Open, behind compatriot Martina Hingis, who was six months younger when she won the tournament back in 1997.

NEW YORK - Serbian tennis player Nenad Zimonjic and Canada's Daniel Nestor qualified for the U.S. Open third round in men's doubles as they defeated Columbia's Nicolas Barrientos and Santiago Giraldo in the second round match late on Friday (CET), 6-2, 6-2.