Second seeds Mahesh Bhupathi and Max Mirnyi entered the quarterfinals of the men's doubles competition at the Australian Open in Melbourne on Sunday.
The Indo-Belarussian pair defeated Hicham Arazi of Morocco and Nicolas Mahut of France in straight sets 6-3, 7-6 (7-4).
The duo will take on fifth-seeded French pair of Michael Liodra and Fabrice Santoro in the quarter-final.
In the mixed doubles, however, Bhupathi, paired with Elena Likhovtseva of Russia and second seeded, could not keep the momentum and lost in an exhausting first round match.
Bhupathi-Likhovtseva were upset by the unseeded pair of Russian Jeff Coetzee and Slovakia's Tina Krizan 7-6, (7/5), 4-6, 7-6 (10/8) in a long-drawn match.
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