August 31, 2011 8:25 PM

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Paes and Bhupati enter second round of U.S. Open Tennis Championship

In the US Open Tennis, Indian duo of Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi entered the second round in men's doubles after getting the better of the Ukrainian-Spanish pair of Alexandr Dolgopolov and Albert Ramos 7-6 and 6-4.In another men's doubles match, fifth seeds Rohan Bopanna and his Pakistani partner Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi defeated unseeded Americans, Robby Ginepri and Rhyne Williams, 6-1, 2-6 and 6-2. Earlier, Sania Mirza crashed out of the women's singles event with a first-round defeat. Sania's nemesis turned out to be her former doubles partner Shahar Peer, who rallied to hand the Indian a 6-7 (5), 6-3 and 6-1 defeat.

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