Indian Davis Cupper Rohan Bopanna caused a mild flutter when he ousted fourth seed Fred Hemmes of the Netherlands 6-2, 6-3 on way to a place in the�men's singles semi-finals in the US $15,000�ITF-Futures tennis tournament in Mumbai on Thursday.

The other Indian left in the fray, giant-killer Vijay Kannan, however, met his match in�qualifier Zbynek Mlynarik of Austria, going down 6-4, 6-4 in another quarter-final, which lasted an hour and three minutes.

Bopanna, who is seeded fifth in this tournament,�played some breathtaking backhand passing shots to break Hemmes in the second game and then held his own to take a 3-0 lead.� Though he�dropped�serve in the fifth game, he managed to break back in the sixth�to go a break up. With a break in the eighth game the Indian pocketed the set.

In the second set, Bopanna kept his opponent guessing with his powerful, well-angled serves. Once he broke Hemmes in the fourth game, he�just went through the motions before winning it at 6-3.

Bopanna served as many as eight aces in the match with half that number of double-faults as well, while his Hemmes sent in nine aces and one double-fault.

Kannan, who served as many as four aces in the first game, dropped his serve in the third game to lose the first set 6-4.

In the second set, the Indian dropped�serve in the very first game, despite serving two aces early in the set. The Austrian, despite being erratic, thereafter proceded to take the set at 6-4.

British qualifier Jonathan Marray was the third player to book a semi-final berth when he rallied magnificently, after dropping the first set 4-6, to pip another giant-killer Baptiste Dupuy of France 4-6, 7-6 (9-7) ,6-4 in an�hour and 50 minutes

On Friday,�in the semi-finals, Marray will take on Bopanna while Mlynarik will play another unseeded player, David Sherwood of Great Britain, who sidelined qualifier Daniel Lesske of Germany 7-5, 6-4.

Results:

Men's singles quarter-finals: Rohan Bopanna (Ind) bt Fred Hemmes (Ned) 6-2, 6-3; David Sherwood (GBR) bt Daniel Lesske (Ger) 7-5, 6-4; Zbynek Mlynarik (Aut) bt Vijay Kannan (Ind) 6-4, 6-4, Jonathan Marray (GBR) bt Baptiste Dupuy (Fra) 4-6, 7-6(9-7), 6-4.

Doubles quarter-finals: Jonathan Marray/David Sherwood (GBR) bt Alessandro Da Col/Giuseppe Menga (Ita) 6-3, 7-6 (7-2); Harsh Mankad/Vishal Uppal (Ind) bt Nitin Kirtane/Sandeep Kirtane (Ind) 6-3, 7-5; Vijay Kannan/Ajay Ramaswamy (Ind) bt Tomas Cakl (Cze)/Juraj Hasko (Svk) 6-4, 6-2; Jasper Smit (Ned) Daniel Lesske (Ger) bt Vadim Davletshin (Rus)/Yew Ming Si (Mal) 7-6 (7-1), 6-3.