New York, Sept. 3 -- Indian tennis player Yuki Bhambri storms to his maiden Grand Slam quarter-finals at the US Open in the Men's doubles alongside his partner from New Zealand, Michael Venus.

Yuki and Venus defeated the No. 4 seeds Kevin Krawietz and Tim Puetz in one hour and 23 minutes by a 6-4, 6-4 score line to move into the final eight. They are set to take on the 11th seeds, Croatia's Nikola Mektic and American veteran Rajeev Ram, in the draw.

Yuki Bhambri, India's top-ranked men's doubles tennis player at world No. 32, and Michael Venus broke the German pair in the ninth game of the first set to clinch the opener, as per Olympics.com.

In the second set, Yuki Bhambri and Michael Venus lost serve in the sixth game but broke back t...