Paes and his Zimbabwean partner Cara Black beat local wild card entrants Sophie Ferguson and Carsten Ball 7-5, 7-5 in the mixed doubles event. Somdev Devvarman and Prakash Amritraj suffered a crushing 1-6, 3-6 defeat at the hands of 11th seed Swede Simon Aspelin and Australia's Paul Hanley in the men's doubles second round.