Rohan Bopanna [ Images ] and Aisam-ul Haq Qureshi scored a thrilling victory to enter the doubles semi-finals in the Nottingham Challenger, but Prakash Amritraj [ Images ] suffered a heart-breaking loss and bowed out of the Granby tournament in Canada [ Images ].

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Third seeds Bopanna and Qureshi overcame a tough challenge from Olivier Charroin and Thomas Oger of France [ Images ], winning 6-3, 6-7(5), 10-8, to advance in the US $25,000 ATP grass court tournament on Thursday.

The Indo-pak pair will lock horns with the top seeded duo of Harel Levy of Israel and Lars Burgsmuller of Germany [ Images ].

Amritraj went down fighting 6-7(6), 5-7 to home qualifier Milan Pokrajac in the singles second round at the US $50,000 hard court event.

Also advancing in Nottingham was Mustafa Ghouse, in the doubles.

The second seed pairing of Ghouse and Briton Joshua Goodall defeated Brydan Klein of Australia [ Images ] and Purav Raja 7-6(2), 6-4.

At the US $50,000 Challenger in Lexington, United States, Karan Rastogi [ Images ] and Romanian Florin Mergea [ Images ] surrendered meekly, going down 1-6, 1-6 to Ross Hutchins of Britain and American Phillip Simmonds.