Bhupathi-Lareau in quarters

Mahesh Bhupathi and Sebastien Lareau of Canada stormed into the quarter-finals of the $800,000 RCA championships, being played at Indianapolis.

The duo, seeded eight in the tournament, defeated James Blake of the United States and Nenad Zimonji of Yugoslavia 6-4, 6-2 in their second round match.

Their quarter-finals opponents will be the winners of the match between top seeds Jonas Bjorkman / Todd Woodbridge and the American pair of Kevin Kim / Glenn Weiner.

In the first round, Bhupathi and Lareau had defeated the wildcard team of Mardy Fish of the United States and Andrei Pavel of Romania 6-4, 2-6, 6-4.

The other seeded teams to reach the quarter-finals are, second seeds Max Mirnyi of Belarus and Sandon Stolle of Australia; third seeds Ellis Ferreira of South Africa and Rick Leach of the United States, and fifth seeds Mark Knowles of The Bahamas and Brian MacPhie of the United States.

Earlier report:
Bhupathi-Lareau seeded 8th