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US Open 2025: India's top-ranked men's doubles player, Yuki Bhambri, and his New Zealand partner, Michael Venus, made a remarkable breakthrough on American soil as they progressed to the men's doubles quarterfinals of the ongoing US Open.

The 14th-seeded duo, Bhambri and Venus, defeated the No. 4 seeds, Germany's Kevin Krawietz and Tim Puetz, in straight sets, 6-4, 6-4.

Ranked world No. 32 in doubles, Bhambri made history by reaching the quarterfinals of a Grand Slam for the first time in his career.

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Earlier, Bhambri and his partner Venus registered a commanding 6-1, 7-5 win over the unseeded pair of Colombia's Gonzalo Escobar and Mexico's Miguel Angel Reyes-Varela, taking just one hour and 25 minutes to seal their victory.

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.

Ram and Mektic required three tight sets and nearly three hours to edge past the unseeded team of Brazil's Fernando Romboli and Britain's John-Patrick Smith, 6-7(7), 7-5, 7-5.

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Last year, Bhambri partnered with French Albano Olivetti and the duo reached the round of 16 in the men's doubles event. However, their campaign came to an end with a straight-set defeat to top seeds Marcel Granollers and Horacio Zeballos, who prevailed in the match 6-2, 6-2.

Earlier, Indian veteran Rohan Bopanna and his partner Romain Arneodo of Monaco were knocked out in the opening round on Saturday. Another Indian, Arjun Kadhe and his partner, Diego Hidalgo of Ecuador, also made a first-round exit.