Seeded 14th, Bhambri and Venus defeated the No. 4 seeds, Germany\u2019s Kevin Krawietz and Tim Puetz, in straight sets, 6-4, 6-4.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Bhambri, India\u2019s top-ranked men\u2019s doubles tennis player at world No. 32, has reached the quarterfinals of a Grand Slam for the first time in his career.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Last year, Bhambri partnered with French tennis player Albano Olivetti for the US Open and made the pre-quarterfinals. The duo lost to Spain\u2019s Marcel Granollers and Argentina\u2019s Horacio Zeballos in straight sets.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Earlier, Bhambri and Venus defeated the unseeded pair of Colombia\u2019s Gonzalo Escobar and Mexico\u2019s Miguel Angel Reyes-Varela 6-1, 7-5 in an hour and 25 minutes at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Centre to progress to the pre-quarterfinals .<\/p>\r\n\r\n
The Indo-Kiwi pair will next play the 11th-seeded team of the 41-year-old American veteran Rajeev Ram and his partner Nikola Mektic of Croatia.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Ram and Mektic needed three tight sets\u2014and nearly three hours\u2014to edge past the unseeded team of Brazil\u2019s Fernando Romboli and Britain\u2019s John-Patrick Smith, 6-7(7), 7-5, 7-5.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Notably, Ram secured his 500th tour-level win with his second-round win on. Notably, he reached the milestone at Flushing Meadows, where he won three consecutive titles with Salisbury from 2021-23. Ram became the seventh active man to reach 500 tour-level doubles wins and he is the only active American with that many victories.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Ram and Mektic needed three tight sets\u2014and nearly three hours\u2014to edge past the unseeded team of Brazil\u2019s Fernando Romboli and Britain\u2019s John-Patrick Smith, 6-7(7), 7-5, 7-5.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
On Sunday, Anirudh Chandrasekar and Vijay Sundar Prashanth\u2019s run came to an end with a 6-4, 6-3 defeat to Brazil\u2019s Fernando Romboli and Australia\u2019s John-Patrick Smith.<\/p>\r\n\r\n