Estranged partners Leander Paes [Images] and Mahesh Bhupathi [Images], teaming up with different players, took contrasting routes to the doubles quarter-finals of the Internazionali BNL D'Italia tennis tournament in Rome on Thursday.
Third seeds Paes and his Czech partner Lukas Dlouhy [Images] hardly broke a sweat as they swamped Ivo Karlovic [Images] and Dusan Vemic 6-1, 6-1.
In another second round match, fourth seeded Bhupathi and his Bahamian teammate Mark Knowles [Images] survived some torrid moments before beating unheralded Simon Bolelli and Andreas Seppi 7-6(5), 2-6, 10-3.
Elsewhere, in Greece, Prakash Amritraj reached the quarter-finals of the Euro 85,000 ATP Challenger after beating Russian Michail Elgin 4-6, 6-2, 6-3.
Amritraj now faces top seed Dudi Sela in the quarter-finals.
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