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Sania Mirza and Elena Vesnina of Russia shocked top seeds Gisela Dulko of Argentina and Flavia Pennetta of Italy to enter the women's doubles semifinals on Monday.
Seventh-seeded Sania and Elena won 6-0 7-5 in 66 minutes. They now play the winner of the match between fourth-seeded Americans Liezel Huber and Lisa Raymond and fifth-seeded Victoria Azarenka of Belarus and Maria Kirilenko of Russia.
Earlier, Rohan Bopanna and Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi of Pakistan on Monday stormed into the men’s doubles quarterfinals. The fifth-seeded Indo-Pak pair defeated Andrey Golubev of Kazakhstan and Denis Istomin of Uzbekistan 6-3 7-5. They now play top seeds Mike and Bob Bryan who overcame a stiff resistance from Russia's Teymuraz Gabashvili and Mikhail Kukushkin of Kazakhstan 7-6(6) 7-5.
Later on, Leander Paes and his Czech partner Iveta Benesova lost their mixed doubles quarterfinal match to top seeded pair of Nenad Zimonjic and Katarina Srebotnik by 7-6 6-3. This defeat ended Paes’s campaign in Paris.
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