Bopanna notches up 100th career doubles win

Eastbourne: Rohan Bopanna recorded his 100th career doubles win on Wednesday after he and Aisam ul-Haq Qureshi scored a straight-set victory over Spaniards Pablo Andujar and Guillermo Garcia-Lopez at the AEGON International.Bopanna and Qureshi defeated the Spaniard duo 6-3 6-4 in 65 minutes, hitting five aces and winning 71 per cent of their service points, to advance to the quarter-finals. Bopanna, who today rose to career-best ninth in ATP doubles rankings, now has a career doubles win-loss record of 100-75 while Aisam`s career statistics read 96-70. The Indo-Pak pair will meet the duo of Grigor Dimitrov of Bulgaria and Andreas Seppi of Italy in the quarter-finals.Last week, Bopanna and Aisam captured their second ATP World Tour team title at the Gerry Weber Open in Halle, Germany. They have a 22-12 win-loss record in the season so far.

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