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NEW DELHI, JAN. 28 . Defending champions Leander Paes and Martina Navratilova continued their march towards a second successive title after clinching a thrilling quarterfinal victory over Australia's Paul Hanley and Trudi Musgrave in mixed doubles today. The fourth seeds were stretched to the wire by the local pair but they put to use all their experience to carve out a 6-3, 3-6, 10-7 victory in super-tiebreak and book their place in the last four. In the semifinals, Paes and Navratilova will face unseeded Jonathan Erlich of Israel and Liezel Huber of South Africa, who upset top seeds Mark Knowles of Bahamas and Virginia Ruana Pascual of Spain 6-7 (6/8), 6-3, 7-6 (7/5) in the round of eight.
Rastogi advances
In the junior section, the Indians had a mixed day as Karan Rastogi advanced to the third round in boys' singles but Sanaa Bhambri was made to bite the dust in the girls' event. Top Indian junior and fourth seed Rastogi had no problems in packing off local boy Miles Kasiri 6-1, 6-3 to advance to the third round. He will now take on Chu-Huan Yi of Chinese Teipei. But Sanaa, making her first appearance in this Grand Slam event, could hardly pose a threat to the eighth seed Sun Sheng Nan of China and lost 0-6, 5-7. Sanaa's challenge in the girl's doubles, where she paired with Indonesian Ayu Fani Damayanti, also came to an end losing to third seed Marina Erakovic of New Zealand and Ekaterina Kosminskaya of Russia 2-6, 0-6 in the first round. In the boys' doubles, the seventh seeded pair of Rastogi and Divij Sharan were knocked out by unseeded Thomas Liversage of South Africa and Tonci Peric of Croatia 4-6, 7-5, 6-0 in the first round. Tushar Liberhan and Weerapat Doakmaiklee of Thailand moved into the second round with a hard fought 1-6, 7-6 (7/4), 6-2 victory over Luis Diaz Barriga of Mexico and Maciej Sykut of USA. They now play top-seeded American pair of Brendan Evans and Scott Oudesma. — PTI
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