So far, the French pair had always needed three sets to qualify. But this Tuesday, Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut were imperial against the pair made up of Bosnian Tomislav Brkic and Serbian Nikola Cacic. The n ° 6 seeds won in two heats (7-6, 6-1) in 1h23 ‘.
After a hungry first round, they unfolded in the next in front of rivals without a solution and will face Colombians Juan-Sebastian Cabal and Robert Farah in the semi-finals, seeded n ° 2.
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