<table style="width: 125px; height: 42px" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="125" align="right" border="1">  <tbody>  <tr>  <td><img alt="" src="/imagedata/2010/may/paes.jpg" border="0" /></td></tr>  <tr>  <td>  <p align="center"><span style="font-size: 8pt">Paes (right) &amp; Lukas Dlouhy</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table>Defending champions India's Leander Paes and his Czech partner Lucas Dlouhy cruised into the quarter-finals of the French Open doubles event at Roland Garros here with a 6-3, 6-4 straight sets victory over Mexican Santiago Gonzalez and American Travis RettenMayer yesterday.<br /><br />However, fate did not quite smile on anotheru00a0 Indian Rohan Bopanna, partnering Pakistan's Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi, as they went down 5-7, 3-6 to the French pair of Julien Benneteau and Michael Llodra.<br /><br />In the quarter-finals, Paes and Dlouhy play the winner of the match between Frenchmen Thierry Ascione and Laurent Recouderc and the Polish pair of Mariusz Fyrstenberg and Marcin Matkowski. Paes and Dlouhy came out all guns blazing as they refused to let their opponents have the upper hand, like they did in their previous round match when they were stretched to three sets by Switzerland's Yves Allegro and Germany's Andreas Beck before they winning 6-4, 3-6, 6-3. Paes is the lone Indian remaining in the clay court Grand Slam and has also reached the second round of the mixed doubles event with partner in Cara Black of Zimbabwe.

Defending champions India's Leander Paes and his Czech partner Lucas Dlouhy cruised into the quarter-finals of the French Open doubles event

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