Leander Paes along with his partner Martin Damm of the Czech Republic entered the semi-finals of the Gerry Webber Open tennis tournament in Halle, Germany on Thursday.
They beat the Swedish-German pair of Robin Soderling and Philipp Kohlschreiber 6-7, 7-6, 10-7 to set up a clash against Swede Simon Aspelin and his Austrian partner Julian Knowle.
In London, Mahesh Bhupathi and Radek Stepanek's campaign in the Artois Championship was cut short in the second round by third seeds Paul Hanley and Kevin Ullyet, who inflicted a straight set defeat on the Indo-Czech duo in the Euro 680,250 ATP event.
Bhupathi and Stepanek went down 1-6, 4-6 to Australian Hanley and his Zimbabwean partner Ullyet.