Tennis- Mahesh and Leander Paes enter Quarters !!

Mahesh Bhupathi joined compatriot Leander Paes in the doubles quarter-finals of the US $ 3,589,000 men’s Masters Series event after registering an easy victory in the second round.

Sixth seeds Bhupathi and partner Mark Knowles of the Bahamas beat Nikolay Davydenko of Russia Nicolas Kiefer of Germany -3, 6-4 in Indian Wells on Monday night.

Paes and his Australian partner Paul Hanley , seeded eighth, will take on Daniel Nestor of Canada and Nenad Zimonjic of Serbia in the quarter-final on Tuesday.

Sania Mirza , seeded 21st, will fight it out with Slovakian fifth seed Daniela Hantuchova for a place in the women’s singles quarter-final at the Pacific Life Open, being held at the same venue.

Sania enters the quarter finals in doubles too

Sania seems to be getting further and further in her games. Apart from getting into the singles quarters, she has entered the doubles quarters as well. Partnering with Bethanie Mattek, she has entered quarterfinal berth in the Pacific Life Open at Indian Wells.

Sania and USA’s Mattek, seeded seventh in the draw, defeated Tatiana Poutchek of Belarus and Russian Anastasia Rodionova 6-2, 4-6, 10-7 to advance to the last eight.

In the USD 3,589,000 men’s Masters Series event being held at the same venue, Leander Paes [and Australian Paul Hanley [, seeded eighth, will take on the Argentine combination of David Nalbandian and Gullermo Canas in the second round.

Sixth seeded Mahesh Bhupathi [ and Mark Knowles of Bahamas will start their campaign against German Christopher Kas and Rogier Wassen of the Netherlands.