Rohan Bopanna and Denis Shapovalov of Canada beat some star players to make the semifinals of the ATP tennis tournament here.
Bopanna and Shapovalov eased past wild card entrants Lucas Pouille and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France 6-4, 6-3, after having beaten the third-seeded Bryan twins, Bob and Mike, 10-6 in the super tie-break.
In the semifinals, the pair will play Nick Kyrgios and Matt Reid of Australia.
Meanwhile, in the Challenger in France, Sumit Nagal beat Ignatik Uladzimir of Belarus in three sets to make the quarterfinals.The results:
€754,540 ATP, Stuttgart: Doubles: Quarterfinals: Denis Shapovalov (Can) & Rohan Bopanna bt Lucas Pouille & Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (Fra) 6-4, 6-3; Pre-quarterfinals: Shapovalov & Bopanna bt Bob & Mike Bryan 6-4, 3-6, [10-6].
€137,560 Challenger, Nottingham: Singles (second round): Sebastian Ofner (Aut) bt Saketh Myneni 6-4, 7-5; Ruben Bemelmans (Bel) bt Ramkumar Ramanathan 6-1, 6-0.
€92,040 Challenger, Lyon: Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Sumit Nagal bt Ignatik Uladzimir (Blr) 6-1, 3-6, 6-3. Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Simone Bolelli & Andrea Pellegrino (Ita) bt Ruben Gonzales (Phi) & Vishnu Vardhan 6-4, 6-4.
$25,000 ITF men, Shenzhen: Doubles (quarterfinals): Luca Castelnuovo (Sui) & Karunuday Singh bt Yu-Hsiang Chiu & Li-Wei Tan (Tpe) 7-5, 6-2.
$25,000 ITF men, Hong Kong: Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Sidharth Rawat bt Alexander Crnokrak (Aus) 6-4, 6-4.
$15,000 ITF men, Singapore: Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Manish Sureshkumar bt Cameron Green (Aus) 6-1, 6-1; Kazuki NIshiwaki (Jpn) bt Abhinav Sanjeev Shanmugam 7-6(4), 6-2. Doubles (quarterfinals): Siddhant Banthia & Manish Sureshkumar bt Roy Hobbs (Sgp) & Kelsey Stevenson (Can) 6-4, 6-2.