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French Open: Sania-Martina cruise into quarterfinal; Paes, Bopanna crash out

Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis have stormed into the Women's Doubles quarterfinals of the French Open, the second Grand Slam of the season. Last night, the top seeded Indo-Swiss pair defeated the Italian team of Roberta Vinci and Karin Knapp, 6-1, 6-4 to book a place in the last-8.Sania is the only Indian left in the tournament as Leander Paes and Rohan Bopanna, with their teammates, crashed out yesterday after losing their pre-quarterfinal fixtures. Paes and his Canadian teammate Daniel Nestor lost to Italians Fabio Fognini and Simone Bolelli, 2-6, 4-6, while Bopanna and Romania's Florin Mergea went down fighting to Dutch Jean-Julien Rojer and his Romanian partner Horia Tecau, 3-6, 7-6, 3-6.In the Singles, world number four Tomas Berdych made an exit after losing to Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, 3-6, 2-6, 7-6, 3-6. Roger Federer's match could not be completed due to bad weather, while Maria Sharapova's match was cancelled.

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