Aisam-Rohan in quarter finals in Kremlin Cup

LAHORE: Pakistan’s Aisam ul Haq together with Indian Rohan Bopanna made it to the quarter final of the Kremlin Cup ATP World Championship defeating L. Fridle of Czech Republic and V. Hanescu of Romania 6-1,3-6,10-8 in Moscow on Wednesday.
In the first set Aisam and Rohan totally dominated their opponents and clearly dictated the terms of proceedings on court as they broke Friedl & Haneseu’s serve twice on way to grabbing the set,said the information made available here.
In the second set, however, the fates were completely reversed as Aisam and Rohan’s serve was broken twice and they were 1-5 down at one point of time. Thanks to a few outclass return winners by them they were able to break back and then by holding their own serve were able to make it 3-5.Here again they played very well  to take the score to 40-40 from being 0-30 on Hanescu’s serve but were unable to prevent Hanescu from closing the set with a 6-3 score.In the super tie break Aisam & Rohan put enormous pressure on Friedl and Hanescu as they made it 3-0 but their lead was later neutralized when they lost their advantage. At 7-8 however they were again able to get a break up to make it 9-8 and made no more mistake in winning the next point on their own serve to take the super tie break and the match – App