LATEST US OPEN TENNIS NEWS – DOMINIC INGLOT AND ROBERT LINDSTEDT REACH DOUBLES QF

Written by: Staff on 7th September 2015

LATEST US OPEN TENNIS NEWS - DOMINIC INGLOT AND ROBERT LINDSTEDT REACH DOUBLES QF

epa04917706 Feliciano Lopez of Spain serves to Fabio Fognini of Italy during their match on the seventh day of the 2015 US Open Tennis Championship at the USTA National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, New York, USA, 06 September 2015. The US Open runs through 13 September, which is a return to a 14-day schedule. EPA/JOHN G. MABANGLO |

The unseeded pair of Dominic Inglot and Robert Lindstedt advanced to the US Open quarter-finals on Sunday, beating Tommy Haas and Radek Stepanek 6-4, 6-3.

Competing in their fourth tour-level event as a team, the British-Swedish duo is coming off a title run on the hard courts of Winston-Salem a week ago. They prevailed after one hour and 16 minutes and will face either sixth seeds Rohan Bopanna and Florin Mergea or ninth seeds Daniel Nestor and Edouard Roger-Vasselin.

In other action, No. 12 seeds Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut needed just 63 minutes to dispatch Marcel Granollers and Marc Lopez, while Leonardo Mayer and Joao Sousa downed Colin Fleming and Treat Huey6-4, 3-6, 6-3. Herbert and Mahut are bidding to reach their second Grand Slam semi-final of the year after streaking to the Australian Open final (l. to Bolelli/Fognini).

No. 8 seeds Jamie Murray and John Peerseliminated Philipp Oswald and Adil Shamasdin 6-4, 6-4 to move into the quarter-finals. The British-Australian duo took the first set without facing a break point, then claimed the win on their second match point after 78 minutes of play.

( Courtesy of the ATP and Original Link – http://www.atpworldtour.com/en/news/us-open-2015-sunday-lindstedt-inglot-beat-haas-stepanek-doubles )

Topics: Atp World Tour, Dominic Inglot, Doubles tennis, Robert Lindstedt, Sports, Tennis News, US Open

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