Rohan Bopanna and Florin Mergea enter Gerry Weber Open quarters

Bopanna(L) and Romanian doubles partner Mergea with their winners’ trophies at the recently concluded Mercedes Cup

Halle (Germany), June 16 (IANS) The Indo-Romanian tennis pair of Rohan Bopanna and Florin Mergea played brilliantly to enter the men's doubles quarter-finals of the Gerry Weber Open here on Tuesday.

The second seeds beat Czech-Ukrainian Luka Rosol and Sergiy Stakhovsky 2-6, 6-3, 10-8.

Rosol and Stakhovsky got off to a flying start, winning couple of break points right at the start to take the opening set 6-2 in a one-sided contest.

The second set saw Bopanna-Mergea get the lone break point available. A couple of double faults at crucial junctures also did not aid Rosol and Stakhovsky, helping their opponents take home the set 6-3 and push the match into the decider.

Bopanna-Mergea played sensibly to win the super tie-break 10-8. Rosol-Stakhovsky also made life difficult for them by serving a double fault at such an important phase of the match.

The Indo-Romanian pair will next face Croatia's Marin Draganja and Finland's Henri Kontinen in quarters who earlier beat Alexander Zverev and Mischa Zverev 6-3, 6-2 in the first round.