Indian Tennis stars Mahesh Bhupathi and Leander Paes have booked their berth in the quarter-finals of the mixed doubles event of the US Open after winning their second round matches with their respective partners at Flushing Meadows in New York.

Bhupathi and his American partner Liezel Huber, top seeded, ousted Jill Craybas and Eric Butorac of the US in straight sets 6-3, 6-3 in just 54 minutes. The Indo-American duo will now lock horns with the winner of the second round match between Stephen Huss-Virginia Ruano Pascual and eighth seeded duo of Nenad Zimonjic-Bethanie Mattek Sands.

The second seeded pair of Leander Paes and Zimbabwe's Cara Black also won their match against Flavia Pennetta and Serb Dusan Vemic of Italy by 6-4, 6-4 in 74 minutes. Paes-Cara duo will meet seventh seeded pair of Rennae Stubbs of Australia and Robert Lindstedt of Sweden in the quarterfinal.