Paes played at a different level even compared to his evidently improving singles form in the previous matches. Except for a couple of games in the beginning, Iwabuchi never looked like he would trouble Paes.

That was in the second set, when he broke Iwabuchi for 3-2 and the left-hander broke back and held. Paes held, then quickly broke again to go 5-3 up and closed out the match.

Paes expects Terachi to try and keep him pinned to the baseline, and was therefore happy with his own baseline game today. ``I was happy with my baseline game as Terachi will also try and keep me back,'' Paes said.

``I've seen him play and he's definitely not a natural grasscourt player, but the way this court is playing, it's not a natural grasscourt, so it could be to his advantage.''

RESULTS

Singles (quarter-finals):Jamie Delgado (Gbr) bt 4-Tuomas Ketola (Fin) 4-6, 7-5, 6-2; Takahiro Terachi (Jpn) bt Oleg Ogorodov (UZB) 6-3, 4-6, 6-1; Paradorn Srichaphan (Tha) bt Ivan Vajda (Cro) 3-6, 6-3, 6-1; Leander Paes (Ind) bt Satoshi Iwabuchi (Jpn) 6-4, 6-4. Semi-final line-up: Srichaphan vs Delgado, Paes vs Terachi.