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Third seeds Rohan Bopanna of India and Florin Mergea of Romania overcame a poor start to beat Andy Murray and Daniel Nestor to advance to the quarter-finals of the ATP Citi Open on Monday.
Bopanna and his Romanian partner defeated the Scottish-Canadian team 2-6, 6-1, 10-3 in the opening round of the $1,753,020 hard-court event.
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There was no looking back for Bopanna and Mergea after they squared the match by taking the second set as they outplayed Murray and Nestor in the super tie-break.
The Indo-Romanian pair will next face the Bulgarian-American pair of Grigor Dimitrov and Mardy Fish.
There was no Indian featuring in the singles following the first round defeat of Somdev Devvarman in the qualifying round.
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