Indian Wells (California), Mar 18: Sixth seed pair of Mahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles of Bahamas overwhelmed Nikolay Davydenko (Russia) and Nicholas Keifer (Germany) to storm into the doubles quarter-finals of the of the 3,589,000 dollars Pacific Life Open Tennis here.

Bhupathi and Knowles faced little resistance as they got past Davydenko and Kiefer 6-3, 6-4 in the second round match.
Bhupathi/Knowles will take on the winners of the match between fourth seed Israeli pair of Jonathan Erlich and Andy Ram and Paul-Henri Mathieu of France and Radek Stepanek of the Czech The Eighth seed duo of Leander Paes and his Australian partner Paul Hanley, will face Daniel Nestor of Canada and Nenad Zimonjic of Serbia in other quarter-final.

21st seed Indian, Sania Mirza faces 5th seed Slovakian Daniela Hantuchova in the pre quater final of women's singles event being held at the same venue.

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