Mahesh Bhupathi [ Images ] and Radek Stepanek stormed into the men's doubles quarter-finals but Rupesh Roy was knocked out of the boys' singles in the first round at the French Open [ Images ] in Paris on Monday.

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Bhupathi and Stepanek shocked seventh seeds Jonathan Erlich and Andy Ram [ Images ] of Israel 7-6(4), 6-4 in the third round to book a last-eight berth.

The Indo-Czech pair could face second seeds Jonas Bjorkman [ Images ] of Sweden and Max Mirnyi [ Images ] of Belarus, who are up against Jeff Coetlee of South Africa [ Images ] and Rogier Wassen of the Netherlands.

Eighteen-year-old Roy went down to Ricardas Berankis of Lithuania 6-7(5), 2-6 to bow out of contention.