Beijing, Oct 6: Ace Indian tennis duo of Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi stormed into the quarterfinals of the doubles event of Beijing Open after a tough fight against Mao Gong and Zhe Li of China on Wednesday.
Paes and Bhupathi prevailed over the Chinese duo 6-2, 3-6, 10-3 in a one hour nine minute first round contest.
The fourth seeded Indian duo will next take on the Croatian pair of Marin Cilic and Ivan Ljubicic who beat Mark Knowles of Bahamas and Jurgen Melzer of Austria 6-3, 6-4 in another first round match. PTI
