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Fourth seeds Moodie and Norman, beaten finalists here last year, won 6-1, 6-4 to set up a semifinal showdown against second seeds Daniel Nestor of Canada and Nenad Zimonjic of Serbia, who beat Lukasz Kubot of Poland and Austrian Oliver Marach 7-5 6-3.
Unseeded Brazilians Marcelo Melo and Bruno Soares, who downed top-seeded brothers Bob and Mike Bryan earlier in the tournament, were beaten in three sets by Julian Knowle and Andy Ram.
French Open men’s doubles quarter-final results from Paris on Tuesday (prefix denotes seeding).
2-Daniel Nestor/Nenad Zimonjic (Canada/Serbia) beat 6-Lukasz Kubot/Oliver Marach (Poland/Austria) 7-5 6-3
4-Wesley Moodie/Dick Norman (South Africa/Belgium) beat Marc Lopez/Pere Riba (Spain) 6-1 6-4
10-Julian Knowle/Andy Ram (Austria/Israel) beat Marcelo Melo/Bruno Soares (Brazil) 6-7(3) 6-2 6-0
3-Lukas Dlouhy/Leander Paes (Czech Republic/India) beat 8-Mariusz Fyrstenberg/Marcin Matkowski (Poland) 6-1 6-3