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Summary
The Pakistani and Indian duo of Aisam Qureshi of Pakistan and Rohan Bopanna of India reached the final of the Grand Prix King Hassan II ATP Championship of Casablanca, Morocco, in a convincing manner.They completely outperformed their strong opponents Philipp Marx of Germany and Igor Zelenay of Czech Republic in every discipline of the game. They hit six aces as against only three of their opponents and availed three out of four break points set up by them while their opponents could only manage to convert one out of seven opportunities. In all, they won 60 points out of a total of 110 points. They won the first set with a score of 6-3. This was managed when they broke their opponents in the eighth game of the first set and took 5-3 lead. At this stage Aisam made no mistake in serving out the set with a 6-3 score. In the second set they succeeded in breaking their opponents serve in the very first game however the lead was neutralised when they lost their own service game. But they struck back like lightning and again broke their opponents serve to take a break up advantage which they maintained conveniently and closed the second set with a 6-4 score. They will face the pair of Swedish player Robert Lindstedt and Horia Tecau of Romania in the Final.
