Paes-Radek Stepanek, Sania Mirza-Jie Zheng enters US Open quarterfinals

New York: Leander Paes and Radek Stepanek, fought their way into the men's doubles quarterfinals while Sania Mirza and Jie Zheng hardly broke a sweat to book a berth in the women's doubles last-eight stage, here on Sunday.

Paes and his Czech partner, seeded fourth, had to battle for two hours and 12 minutes to overcome 14th seeded veteran French pair of Michael Llodra and Nicolas Mahut 7-5 4-6 6-3.

Up next for Paes and Stepanek could be India's Divij Sharan and his Taipei partner Yen-Hsun Lu. The duo defeated the Israeli team of Jonathan Erlich and Andy Ram 6-4 5-7 7-6 (2) in a hard-fought contest.

Divij and Lu have a tough match on hand as they face Pakistan's Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi and the Netherlands' Jean-Julien Rojer, a combination that is seeded fifth in the season's final Grand Slam.

Sania and China's Zheng, seeded 10th, took out sixth seeds Anna-Lena Groenefeld of Germany and Kveta Peschke of Czech Republic 6-2 6-3 in one hour and 12 minutes.

Sania and Zheng never faced a break point in the entire match and broke their rivals twice in each set to move to the last-eight.

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- Unknown Updated at: Monday, September 02, 2013