David Marrero

Tennis: Horia Tecau and Jean-Julien Rojer qualify for semifinals of doubles event in Halle

Romanian tennis player Horia Tecau and Dutch Jean-Julien Rojer, seeded 1st, on Wednesday qualified for the semifinals of the doubles event of the grass-court tournament taking place in Halle (Germany), equipped with total prizes worth 1,574,640 euros, after defeating German pair Dustin Brown/Lennard Struff, 6-7(4), 6-1, 10-7.

Djokovic, Wawrinka through to Rogers Cup doubles 2nd round

TORONTO - Serbia's Novak Djokovic and Stanislas Wawrinka of Switzerland reached the second round of the Rogers Cup men's doubles tournament in Toronto early Tuesday by beating the Colombian-Spanish pair of Juan Sebastian Cabal and David Marrero 6-3, 7-5.

Djokovic and Wawrinka will next face Nenad Zimonjic of Serbia and Daniel Nestor of Canada, who were seeded in the first round.

Zimonjic and Nestor go through to doubles semifinals

ROME - Serbia's Nenad Zimonjic and Canada's Daniel Nestor beat David Marrero and Fernando Verdasco of Spain 4-6 6-3 10-7 in Rome on Thursday and qualified for the semifinals of the Italian Open.

Their next opponents will be the winners of the match between Bob and Mike Bryan of the US on one side and Tommy Haas from Germany and Rade Stepanek from the Czech Republic on the other.