January 24, 2011 1:31 PM

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Paes-Bhupathi enter Australian Open quarterfinals

Indian tennis pair of Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi has entered the quarterfinals of the Australian Open with a fighting three-set win over Spanish combination of Marcel Granollers and Tommy Robredo in the third round of the men's doubles event in Melbourne today.Paes and Bhupathi teamed up together after nine years in a bid to add the only Grand Slam title — the Australian Open — missing in their cupboard. They had to play out of the skin to get the better of 13th seeds Granollers and Robredo 6-4, 4-6 and 6-4 in an engrossing one hour and 52 minutes encounter.In the quarterfinals, the third seeded Indian pair will play the winners of the match between Indo-Pak pair of Rohan Bopanna and Aisam-ul Haq Qureshi and French-Serbian combination of Micheal Lodra and Nenad Zimonjic.

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