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MONACO: Pakistan’s Aisam-ul-Haq and his Dutch partner Jean-Julien Rojer crashed out of the Monte Carlo Masters on Friday.

The fourth-ranked duo, who came into the tournament on the back of title success at the Sony Open in Miami, were upset by Serbia’s Nenad Zimonjic and Julien Benneteau 6-2, 7-5 in their quarter-final.Zimonjic and Benneteau will now face the unseeded Spanish pair of David Marrero and Fernando Verdasco in the semi-finals.—Agencies

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