In Tennis, Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi recorded contrasting victories in their respective first round Mixed Doubles matches at the French Open in Paris yesterday. The seventh seeded Indo-Czech pair of Leander Paes and Iveta Benesova brushed aside Frenchwoman Aravine Rezai and her Bulgarian partner Grigor DiMitrov 6-3, 6-1. But Mahesh Bhupathi and his Chinese partner Jie Zheng had to fight hard as they pipped Petra Kvitova of Czech Republic and Ukraine's Sergiy Stakhovsky 6-7, 6-0, 10-8 in a three-setter game.