Bhupathi-Knowles in Dubai Tennis Championships quarters

DUBAI - India’s Mahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles of Bahamas stormed into the quarter-finals of the Dubai Tennis Championships with a 6-3, 6-1 win over wild cards Hamoud Abbas and Mahmoud-Nader Al Baloushi of UAE.

This was the second seeded Indo-Bahamian pair’s 50th win as they look to defend the title they won last year.

Bhupathi and Knowles next play Italian Rik De Voest and Russian Dmitry Tursunov who beat Russian pair Igor Andreev and Mikhail Youzhny 6-3, 6-2.