May 27, 2011 8:54 AM

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Paes and Bhupathi qualify to second round of men's doubles at French Open

In Tennis, the Indian duo of Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi has qualified to the second round of the men's doubles competition at the on-going French Open in Paris. In a three setter game, the third seeded Indian pair on Thursday defeated the German combine of Tommy Haas and Philipp Petzschner 2-6, 6-3, 6-2. In the next round, Paes and Bhupathi will meet Australians Ashley Fisher and Stephen Huss.Meanwhile, India's Somdev Devvarman and his Chinese Taipei partner Yen-Hsun Lu failed to clear the first hurdle in the men's doubles event as they lost to the Spanish pair of Feliciano Lopez and Marcel Granollers, 3-6, 4-6.

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