The second seeded Mahesh Bhupathi and his Bahamian partner Mark Knowles handed a straight-set mauling to UAE’s Hamoud Abbas and Mahmoud-Naden Al Baloushi.

With this win, the Indo-Bahamian pair has now advanced into the quarter-finals of the Dubai Tennis Championship.

The Bhupathi & Knowles pair were at ease throughout the match and hardly had any trouble to overpower their rivals 6-3, 6-1 in the $2,233,500 event. This was the 50th win for this Indo-Bahamian pair.

Mumbai, Feb 2 : The winning duo of Australian Mixed doubles title Mahesh Bhupathi and Sania Mirza arrived at the Airport here on Monday.

"It''s a great way to comeback. It is my first tournament of the year and many more to go ahead. So I am just going to be happy with wining this grand slam and will see from here," said Sania Mirza.

When asked whether both will continue to play such mixed doubles tournament in future, pat came the reply from Mahesh Bhupathi, "yes definitely".

At the Australian open semifi

In the Australian Open on Thursday, Mahesh Bhupathi chose to downplay his being on the edge of a career Grand Slam and what could have been a sparkling summit clash against Leander Paes.

Bhupati said after partnering Mark Knowles of the Bahamas to reach the men’s doubles final in the year’s first major, “I still have one more match to go.”

In the semi-finals, third seeded Bhupati and his partner Knowles beat Lukasz Kubot of Poland and Oliver Marach of Austria 6-3, 6-1.

Melbourne, Jan 29, : The third-seeded duo of Mahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles cruised into the finals of men's doubles of the Australian Open.

Mahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles defeated the unseeded Polish-Austrian pair of Lukasz Kubot and Oliver Marach 6-3 6-1 taking just 58 minutes to win their semifinal encounter.

Mahesh Bhupathi has now a chance to grab his fifth men's doubles Grand Slam title, his first Australian Open title and 11th overall.

Melbourne, Jan 25, : Sania Mirza and Mahesh Bhupathi has entered the quarterfinals of the mixed doubles at the Australian Open here today.

Unseeded Sania-Bhupathi pair thrased Australia''s Anastasia Rodionova and Stephen Huss with straight sets 6-1 6-2 in 54 minutes.

The Indian pair will now face the winners of the match between the Canadian pair of Aleksandra Wozniak and Daniel Nestor and second seed Chinese-Bahamian duo of Zi Yan and Mark Knowles.

The Indians took just 23 minutes to pocket the opening set.