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[caption id="attachment_34536" align="aligncenter" width="580"] Bopanna, Matkowski reach semis in Dubai. File Pic[/caption] Internet Desk: India’s ace tennis player Rohan Bopanna, who is partnering Marcin Matkowski, his fourth different partner of the season has reached the doubles semi-finals of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships in Dubai. The unseeded Indo-Polish pair beat Romania’s Florin Mergea and Serbia’s Viktor Troicki 6-3, 6-4 in the quarter-finals of the hard court tournament. This is the second best performance of the season for Bopanna, who won the season-opening Chennai Open with compatriot Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan. Bopanna and Matkowski had shocked second seeds Ivan Dodig and Marcel Granollers 5-7 6-3 11-9 in the opening round of one of the most-loved events on the calender. Bopanna could next find compatriot Leander Paes in the semifinals if the veteran Indian and his Spanish partner Guillermo Garcia-Lopez could go past third seeds Daniel Nestor from Canada and Frenchman Edouard Roger-Vasselin. There is no Indian competing in the singles. Prajnesh Gunneswaran had lost in the first round of the Qualifying event, suffering a 2-6 2-6 defeat against Romania's 124th ranked Marius Copil. With inputs from PTI.