India doubles ace Leander Paes and his Czech partner Radek Stepanech entered the fourth round at the US Open here with a hardfough win over Michael Llodra and Nicolas Mahut of France
The No 4 seed Indo-Czech combine beat the 14th seeds Frenchmen 7-5, 4-6, 6-3 to enter the quarter-finals of the year’s last Grand Slam.
In the previous round, Paes and Stepanek had taken two hours and 35 minutes to defeat the unseeded German-Austrian pairing of Daniel Brands and Philipp Oswald 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 on Court 7. Earlier, India’s Sania Mirza (women’s doubles) and Divij Sharan (men’s doubles) advanced advanced to the third round at Flushing Meadows.
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In only his second ever Grand Slam outing, Sharan with Yen-Hsun Lu of Chinese Taipei overcame experienced Israeli pair Jonathan Erlich and Andy Ram 6-4, 5-7, 7-6(2) on Court 13. The unseeded pair will take on fifth seeds Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi of Pakistan and Dutch Jean-Julien Rojer for a place in the quarter-finals.
Elsewhere in women’s action, 10th seeds Sania and Jie Zheng of China drubbed Hungarian-American duo Katalin Marosi and Megan Moulton-Levy 6-3, 7-5 in one hour and a half hours on Court 13.
The Indo-Chinese pair converted six of their eight breakpoints, whereas their opponents could only convert four of 11. In the third round, they will have a tough outing against sixth seeded German-Czech combine of Anna-Lena Groenefeld and Kveta Peschke.u00a0
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