Indian Men tennis player Leander Paes, Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna have reaches in the quarterfinals of the men's doubles with their respective partners.
However in women's doubles Sania Mirza was knocked out.
14th seeded Rohan Bopanna and his French partner Edouard Roger-Vasselin defeated third seeded Austrian-Brazil pair Alexander Peya and Bruno Soares by 6-4, 4-6, 7-6(5), 6-2 in 2 hours and 17 minutes.
They will now face 6th seeded Swedish-Canadian Robert Lindstedt and Daniel Nestor in the quarter final.
Bopanna also won in the mixed doubles with his Chinese partner Jie Zheng. 7th seeded Indo-China pair, won 7-6 (8-6), 7-5 against unseeded Croatia-Colombia pair of Darija Jurak and Robert Farah.
Bhupathi and his Austrian pair Julian Knowle, seeded eight, beat unseeded Canadian pair of Jesse Levine and Vasek Pospisil 6-2, 6-4, 3-6, 6-4 in two hours and five minutes.
Bhupathi and Knowle will now face top seeded American duo of Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan, who defeated 16th seed Treat Huey of Philippines and Great Britain's Dominic Inglot by 7-5, 6-3, 7-6 (7-3).
The fourth seeded pair of Paes and Radek Stepanek of the Czech Republic won 6-4, 6-2 and 6-4 against the 15th seeded Polish pair of Lukasz Kobot and Marcin Matwoski.
In the women's doubles, Sania and her partner Liezel Huber were knocked out of the third round by 2-6, 6-3, 2-6 to unseeded Japanese-South African duo of Shuko Aoyama and Chanelle Scheepers.
(with inputs from IANS)
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