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Leander, Mahesh in China Open semis

Top-seeds Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi entered the semi-finals of the $ 303,000 China Open tennis tournament, defeating Americans Patrick McEnroe and Bill Behrens 6-2, 6-4 in Beijing.

In other quarterfinal matches, Joshua Eage and Andrew Florent (Australia) beat David Rild (Czech Republic) and Justin Gimelstob (United States) 6-4, 6-1 while Mark Keil and T J Middleton (United States) defeated Kenneth Carlsen (Denmark) and David Wheaton (United States) 7-5, 6-7 (1-7), 6-2.