Seventh seeds Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi and Jean-Julien Rojer booked a place in the BNP Paribas Masters final on Saturday, rallying past Marin Cilic and Marcelo Melo 0-6, 6-4, 11-9 in Paris.

Despite winning six fewer points than Cilic and Melo, Qureshi and Rojer prevailed in the Match Tie-break to advance in 82 minutes.

The Pakistani-Dutch duo is through to their third final of the season after lifting trophies at the Estoril Open and Gerry Weber Open in Halle.

Qureshi is bidding for a successful title defence in Paris, having captured the title last year with Rohan Bopanna.

Rojer will contest his first ATP World Tour Masters 1000 final. The two secured their place in the eight-team field at next week’s Barclays ATP World Tour Finals with their second-round win.

Qureshi will be playing in his second consecutive World Tour Finals after he qualified for the event last year with Indian partner Rohan Bopanna.

For the title, Qureshi and Rojer will face No. 5 seeds Mahesh Bhupathi and Bopanna or Paul Hanley and Jonathan Marray.