Paes advance in doubles, mixed doubles
January 25th, 2010 - 6:12 pm ICT by IANSMelbourne, Jan 25 (IANS) India’s Leander Paes and Czech Lukas Dlouhy, seeded third, cruised into the men’s doubles quarterfinals with a 6-3, 7-5 defeat of Americans John Isner and Sam Querrey in the Australian Open tennis at the Melbourne Park here Monday.
It was successful day for Paes in the mixed doubles also, where he and Zimbabwean Cara Black reached the third round. The top seeded pair overwhelmed Uzbek Akgul Amanmuradova and Rik De Voest of South Africa, 6-4, 6-2.
This is the sixth time in eight majors that Paes and Dlouhy reached the quarter-final stage.
The Indo-Czech pair won the Roland Garros and US Open titles last year, having finished runner-up at the 2008 US Open. They next play winners of the match between fifth seeds Lukasz Kubot of Poland and Austrian Oliver Marach and Croat Ivo Karlovic and Dusan Vemic of Serbia.
In the girls’ doubles, India’s Rishika Sunkara and Yuki Ito of Japan went down fighting to sixth seeds Anna-Lena Friedsam of Germany and Mai Grage of Denmark, 7-6(5), 2-6, (6-10) in the first round.
In the boys’ doubles, India’s Vaidik Munshaw and Chuhan Wang of China were ousted by fourth seeds Liang-Chi Huang of Chinese Taipei and Yasutaka Uchiyama of Japan, 2-6, 6-7(3) in the first round.
- Paes-Dlouhy crash out of Rome Masters - May 01, 2010
- Rome Masters: Paes-Dlouhy advance, Bhupathi-Mirnyi crash out - Apr 30, 2010
- Paes-Bhupathi in semis; Bopanna-Qureshi ousted in Miami - Mar 31, 2011
- Paes-Black crash out of US Open mixed doubles - Sep 07, 2010
- French Open: Paes-Dlouhy advance, Bhupathi-Mirnyi out - May 29, 2010
- Paes-Dlouhy in quarters at Rome - Apr 30, 2009
- Paes-Stepanek beat Marrero-Verdasco, meet Bryan brothers in semis - Mar 29, 2012
- Paes-Dlouhy enter Dubai Tennis Championships quarters - Feb 23, 2010
- Palha, Shroff in ITF girls' quarters - May 18, 2010
- Paes in mixed doubles semis, but out of doubles - Jan 27, 2010
- Bhupathi-Bopanna reach semis at Miami - Mar 28, 2012
- Bhupathi-Bopanna reach quarters of Dubai Open - Mar 01, 2012
- Australian Open: Paes-Bhupathi, Bopanna-Qureshi in round two - Jan 20, 2011
- Wimbledon: Paes-Bhupathi crash out in second round - Jun 25, 2011
- Shroff, Bisht lone Indians in ITF juniors semis - May 19, 2010
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