MELBOURNE, Australia - Canadian Daniel Nestor has advanced to the quarter-finals at the Australian Open for the 13th time in his career.

Nestor and his partner Radek Stepanek of the Czech Republic toppled Spain's Pablo Andujar and Pablo Carreno Busta in men's doubles on Sunday in three sets, 5-7, 6-4, 6-4.

The match lasted two hours 21 minutes.

The 43-year-old Nestor, from Toronto, won the Australian Open men's doubles title in 2002 with Mark Knowles as his partner. He made his first quarter-finals appearance in 1994 and was the tournament runner up the following year.

Last season Nestor bowed out of the Australian Open in the second round — his worst showing since another second-round elimination in 2009.

Vancouver's Vasek Pospisil also advanced to the quarters alongside American partner Jack Sock with a straight sets victory against the Australian duo of Sam Groth and Lleyton Hewitt on Sunday.

Pospisil and Sock needed only an hour 18 minutes to dispose of their opponents, 6-4, 6-2.

Pospisil, who was eliminated from men's singles earlier in the week, had previously never made it past the second round in doubles at the grand slam tournament.

Pospisil and Sock will play Pablo Cuevas of Uruguay and Spain's Marcel Granollers next while Nestor and Stepanek have to wait to find out their next opponents.