ADAM KAMIEN

FORMER Australian Open doubles champion Yoni Erlich and playing partner Arnaud Celement are through to the quarterfinals of the 2010 championship after ousting swede Johan Brunstrom and Jean-Julien Rojer 6-3, 0-6, 7-5 on January 24.

Erlich appears to have found top form at the right time, after struggling to have an impact since returning from an eight-month injury layoff in April last year.

The pair now faces Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonjic in the quarterfinals on January 27.

Erlich and former doubles partner Andy Ram are the only Israelis left in the draw after Dudi Sela and Shahar Peer bowed out the men’s and women’s doubles competitions respectively.

Ram and partner Elena Vesina are through to the third round of the mixed doubles, the eighth seeds accounting for German pair Anna-Lena Groenefeld and Christopher Kas, 3-6, 7-5, 10-8.

Ram and Vesina look likely to come up against the number one seeds Cara Black and Leander Payes on January 26.

Peer — who made it through to the third round of the singles competition - and playing partner Galina Voskoboeva succumbed to third seeds Nuria Llagostera Vives and Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez in straight sets 7-6, 6-4.

Sela and partner Igor Kunitsyn lost their second round men’s doubles match to Lukas Kubot and Oliver Marach 6-3, 6-2.