Nice (France), May 20 (Inditop.com) Top seeds Mahesh Bhupathi of India and Max Mirnyi of Belarus were knocked out 3-6, 3-6 by Italians Andreas Seppi and Potito Starace in the doubles quarterfinals while India’s Rohan Bopanna and Pakistan’s Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi stormed into the doubles semifinals at Open de Nice.

Bopanna and Quereshi dispatched Britons Colin Fleming and Ken Skupski 6-3, 6-3 here Wednesday.

The India-Pakistan pair now play Czech Leos Friedl and Serbia’s Dusan Vemic.