Third seeds Leander Paes [ Images ] and Lukas Dlouhy [ Images ] moved to the quarter-finals of the ATP Rome Masters after getting a walk-over from Croat Ivan Ljubicic and Michael Llodra of France [ Images ] in the second round.

Llodra and Ljubicic opted out of the contest after the latter suffered a side strain.

Paes and Dlouhy, the winners of the Miami [ Images ] Masters, have not yet played a single ball in the tournament having received a bye in the first round.

They will fight it out with the seventh-seeded pair of Lukasz Kubot [ Images ] of Poland and Oliver Marach [ Images ] of Austria for a place in the semi-finals.