Leander Paes and Daniele Bracciali beat Juan Sebastian Cabal and Robert Farah in the quarters in Thailand Open, while, Somdev Devvarman and partner Rik de Voest beat Nenan Zimonjic and Julien Benneteau in Kuala Lumpur.
Fourth seed Jurgen Melzer began his week at the ATP Malaysian Open in perfect form, with the Austrian crushing South Africa's Rik De Voest 6-0, 6-4 to power into the quarter-finals.
Somdev Devvarman and David Martin bowed out of the doubles event of the SA Tennis Open after losing the closely fought quarter-final against Karol Beck and Dudi Sela.