Bopanna, Vliegen in semis of Atlana event

New Delhi: Rohan Bopanna and Kristof Vliegen overcame a first set deficit to beat Jonathan Erlich and Janko Tipsarevic and book a semifinal berth in the Atlanta Tennis Championships in the USA.

Bopanna and his Belgian partner scored a 3-6 7-6(7) 10-8 win over the Israeli-Serbian pair in the quarter-finals of the USD 531,000 hard court ATP event.

Erlich and Tipsarevic had ousted British top seeds Colin Fleming and Ken Skupski in the opening round.

The next opponents for the Indo-Belgian pair are Stephen Huss of Australia and Brazilian Andre Sa, who got a walk over from American pair of Andy Roddick and Mardy Fish.