January 19, 2012 8:42 AM

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India's Sania Mirza and her Russian partner Elena Vesnina will play their Women's Doubles opening round match in the Australian Open Tennis tournament at Melbourne today.The sixth seeded Indo-Russian pair will clash with the Russian-Greek combine of Alexandra Panova and Eleni Daniilidou.Earlier, in the Singles section, Sania had made a shock exit from the tournament in the opening round.Meanwhile, in the Men's Doubles category, the Indian challenge advanced into the second round yesterday. The Indian duo of Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna defeated the Aussie pair of Matthew Ebden and Chris Guccione 5-7, 6-4, 6-4, while the Indo-Czech combine of Leander Paes and Radek Stepanek beat Greg Jones and John-Patrick Smith of Australia, 6-2, 6-2.Defending Champion and Serbia's World Number One Novak Djokovic will play his Men's Singles second round match against Santiago Giraldo of Colombia today. Yesterday, Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer made it to the third round in the Men's Singles category.

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