Bopanna-Fleming enter final of ATP Open 13 in Marseille

After Somdev’s second round exit, Rohan Bopanna is flying the Indian flag high at the ATP Open 13 in Marseille. No. 2 seeded Rohan Bopanna of India and his British partner Colin Fleming fought their way to the finals of the tournament, beating the third-seeded pair of Julian Knowle of Austria and Filip Polasek of Slovakia 7-5, 6-1 in the 528,135 Euro hard-court event. In the match, the Indo-British pair served 14 aces.

Bopanna and Fleming will face the winner of the 2nd semifinal, which will be played between Nicolas Mahut and Édouard Roger-Vasselin of France, and top seeds Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi of Pakistan and Jean-Julien Rojer of the Netherlands.