Paes, playing his first match since creating the Davis Cup world record in February for most number of wins in doubles, and Cerretani, defeated Luke Bambridge and Jonny O’Mara 6-4 6-3 in their opening round of the USD 623,710 hard court event.
Paes and his partner are now up against giant-killers Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan and Austin Crajicek, who toppled top seeds Nicholas Monroe and John-Patrick Smith 5-7 6-1 10-8.
Jeevan has a good record playing against Paes, winning twice against the Indian legend this season – at Tata Open Maharashtra in Pune and at Dallas Challenger.
Also advancing to the quarterfinals was in-form Divij Sharan, who along with partner Jackson Withrow, seeded second, beat Martin Redlicki and Evan Zhu 6-3 6-3.
Third seeds Purav Raja and Ken Skupski also moved to the last-eight with a 7-5 6-4 win over Ruben Bemelmans and Denis Kudla.
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