India’s no.1 Leander Paes reached the mixed doubles quarterfinals with Elena Vesnina after Rohan Bopanna and Jie Zheng crashed to a straight-set defeat in the last-eight stage of the same event here.
Fourth seeds Paes and Russia`s Vesnina staved off a stiff challenge from the Belarussian combination of Max Mirnyi and Victoria Azarenka to win 7-6 (3) 6-3 and enter the quarterfinals.
They will now be up against the Australian-Russian pair of Paul Hanley and Alla Kudryavtseva in the quarterfinals.
However, it was curtains for 10th seeds Bopanna and Zheng, who lost 2-6 5-7 to second-seeded Americans Mike Bryan and Lisa Raymond in just 55 minutes.
