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Bhupathi-Woodbridge in quarterfinals
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January 23, 2005 15:38 IST

Third seeds Mahesh Bhupathi [Images] and Todd Woodbridge registered a hard fought win over the Spanish duo of Albert Costa and Rafael Nadal [Images] to move into the quarter-finals of the men's doubles at the Australian Open in Melbourne on Sunday.

The Indo-Australian duo rallied from a set down to win 4-6, 7-6 (7/2), 6-4 in just over an hour and 30 minutes to set up a clash with fifth seeds Kevin Ullyett and Wayne Black of Zimbabwe for a place in the last four.

Bhupathi and Woodbridge had a tough time against the Spanish pair as they could not gain a single break point in the first two sets.

But the duo used all their experience to take the second set tie-break with relative ease and then broke their opponents twice in the decider to book their berth in the last eight.



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