Bhupathi-Stepanek in Dubai Duty free final

Doha, Mar 2 (UNI) Mahesh Bhupathi and Radek Stepanek advanced into the doubles finals of the Dubai Duty Free tennis tournament after beating second seeds Paul Hanley and Kevin Ullyett in a gruelling tie here today.

The Indo-Czech pair won the semi-final match in super tie breaker 4-6, 6-3, 10-8 against the Australia-Zimbabwe duo.

They will meet in the title round the winner of the other semi-final between top seeds Mark Knowles/Daniel Nestor and third seeds Fabrice Santoro/Nenad Zimonjic in the 1.5 million dollar ATP event.

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