Indian tennis stars Leander Paes and Rohan Bopanna aced an contrasting wins in their respective matches to enter the the second round of the men’s doubles competition at the French Open tennis tournament on Wednesday.
Bopanna and his Uruguayan partner Pablo Cuevas won the game in straight 2 sets to qualify to the next round. The ninth seeded pair just needed 53 minutes to defeat the French pair of Mathias Bourgue and Paul-Henri Mathieu 6-1, 6-1 in the first round.
Paes and his American Partner Scott Lipsky struggled hard to the last breath to win the game with a 7-6, 4-6, 6-2 win over R. Albot of Romania and H. Chung of South Korea in their opening round encounter.
Whereas, it was a disappointing day for Sania Mirza however, as the Hyderabad girl and her partner Yaroslava Shvedova of Kazakhstan crashed out in the first round of the women’s doubles event.
The fourth seeds went down 6-7(5), 6-1, 2-6 to Daria Gavrilova of Australia and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of Russia.
Sania will next be seen in the mixed doubles event alongside Ivan Dodig of Croatia. The second seeded pair had finished runners-up last year.
