Sania and Ukrainian Nadiia Kichenok, the second seeds, lost the opening round of the WTA 250 event 3-6, 3-6 to Czech pair of Tereza Martincova and Marketa Vondrousova in 61 minutes.
Bopanna's excellent service returns at crucial times and Ramkumar's all-round game tilted the match in their favour.
The Indian pair trounced the French-Monegasque duo of Benjamin Bonzi and Hugo Nys 6-1, 6-3 in the doubles quarterfinals of the ATP 250 event.
The Indian pair stunned the eighth seed American duo of Nathaniel Lammons and Jackson Withrow 6-7(4), 7-6(3), 10-4 in men's doubles.
Both Prajnesh Gunneswaran and Ramkumar had lost their singles matches on Friday and to stay alive in the tie, the Indians needed to win the doubles.
Bopanna and Dodig, seeded 13th, lost 7-6(4) 4-6 6-7(3) to fourth seeds Rajeev Ram and Joe Salisbury in the third round.
The 14th seed Indo-Croatian pair won 6-3 4-6 6-4 over their unseeded rivals in one hour and 56 minutes on Saturday night.
Sania Mirza will be in action at the Cincinnati Masters, pairing up with Tunisia's Ons Jabeur in the women's doubles.
AITA also released its complete correspondence with the International Tennis Federation (ITF) concerning the qualification of India's men doubles team for the Tokyo Olympics.
Following being accused of not qualifying for Olympics on merit, Bopanna shared an alleged phone call with AITA general secretary Anil Dhupar, where the official said qualification is possible.
Bopanna accused AITA of misleading everyone by claiming it had changed the combination by pairing him with Sumit Nagal for a shot at qualification.
The contest resumed with the 14th seed pair of Jean Julien-Roger and Andreja Klepac having a one-set lead and they finished on the right side of the result with a 6-3 3-6 11-9 scoreline.
Also rules out the country's presence in the mixed team competition, it's best chance for a podium finish.
Rohan Bopanna and Divij Sharan knocked out the second-seeded pair in Halle.
Earlier in the tournament, on Wednesday, the unseeded Bopanna and Shapovalov had taken down top seeds Juan Sebastian Cabal and Robert Farah in straight sets.
Bopanna and Shapovalov will take on German duo of Alexander Zverev and Tim Puetz in the quarter-finals.
Rohan Bopanna and Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi, the duo which was given the title of 'Indo-Pak Express', will team up after seven years in the upcoming Mexico Open tournament.
Bopanna and his Chinese partner Yingying Duan lost 4-6 4-6 to the pair of American Bethanie Mattek-Sands and United Kingdom's Jamie Murray in a first-round match that lasted an hour and three minutes.
Rohan Bopanna and Ben McLachlan lose opening round 4-6, 6-7 (0), to Ji Sung Nam and Min-Kyu Song.
Bopanna was on one of the three flights out of a total of 17 Tennis Australia-arranged chartered planes, that landed in Melbourne with positive cases on board.
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