Mahadevan/Shivshankar in quarters

Men's doubles top seeds Manoj Mahadevan and K Shivshankar led the other ranked pairs into the quarter-finals following easy opening round victories in the Rs 300,000 J S Pereira Millennium All India men's ranking tennis tournament at the Bandra Gymkhana in Bombay on Wednesday.

Mahadeven and Shivshankar breezed past Uttar Pradesh's Kamlesh Shukla and Kaptan Karsolia 6-0, 6-3.

Before the other seeds booked their places in the last eight, Nandakumar Mukundan and Benjamin Xavier registered an exciting 7-6, (8-6), 6-2 win over Maharashtra's National under-18 doubles winners Abhijeet Tamhane and Vivek Jhaveri.

Results:

Men's doubles (first round): Manoj Mahadevan/ K Shivshankar bt Kamlesh Shukla/ Kaptan Karsolia 6-0, 6-3; Nandakumar Mukundan/ Benjamin Xavier bt Abhijeet Tamhane/ Vivek Jhaveri 7-6 (8-6) 6-2; Vinod Sridhar/ Vasudeva Reddy bt Akshay Vishal Rao/ Karan Doctor 7-5, 6-3; Nitin Kirtane/ Vijendra Lad bt Kunal Bhojwani/Joshua Fonseca 6-1, 6-2; Yasser Arafat/ Janmeet Singh bt G Mishra/ R Mishra 6-2, 6-0; Abhishek Jhagnani/ Anjan Viplay bt Jaco Mathew/ Sham Abedin 6-1, 6-2; Kedar Tembe/Sangra Chapekar bt Girish Ramchandani/ Devender Singh 6-3, 6-2; Kedar Shah/ Asif Ismail bt Uday Kumar Reddy/J Punjabi 6-3, 6-2.