London: India's Leander Paes and Rohan Bopanna made it to the semi-final of Wimbledon with their respective partners in men's doubles event here on Tuesday.
Boppana and his French partner Edouard Roger-Vasselin, who are seeded 14th, got the better of Swede-Canadian pair of Robert Lidstedt and Daniel Nestor in a five-setter 7-5 7-6 (3) 6-7 (4) 6-7 (3) 6-2 in a rain-hit match which lasted for two hours and 45 minutes.
It will be Bopanna's third Grand Slam semifinal appearance and first at Wimbledon.
Though Bopanna and his partner had a match point in the fourth set, but Lidstedt and Nestor saved that and stretched the set into a tie-breaker, which they won to force decisive fifth set. The Indo-French pair started off well in the final set and took a 3-1 lead that stayed with them for a win in the end.
In another quarterfinal duel, veteran Paes and his Czech partner Radek Stepanek, seeded fourth, took two hours and 39 minutes to get the better 11th seeds Nenad Zimonjic of Serbia and Julien Benneteau of France.