At the French Open Tennis, Sania Mirza, Leander Paes and Rohan Bopanna along with their respective partners have crossed the opening hurdle of the doubles event. In Paris today, the top-seeded pair of Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis had a cake walk against Germany's Julia Goerges and Barbora Krejcikova of Czech Republic. The Indo-Swiss pair advanced to the second round with a comfortable 6-3 6-0 win. In the men's doubles, India's veteran star Paes along with his Canadian partner Daniel Nestor fought hard before prevailing over Australian combo of James Duckworth and Chris Guccione 6-2, 5-7, 7-5. The Indo-Canadian duo will now clash with the winner of another first round match between Eric Butorac/Sam Groth and Andre Begemann/Julian Knowle. Meanwhile, Bopanna and Florin Mergea of Romania came from a set down to post a 5-7, 6-3, 6-4 victory against unseeded Serbian combination of Filip Krajinovic and Viktor Troicki. The Indo-Romanian combination will next face Americans Austin Krajicek and Donald Young in the second round. However, Mahesh Bhupathi lost his first round match along with Australia's Nick Kyrgios in the men's doubles yesterday, suffering a straight-set defeat at the hands of Lucas Pouille and Thanasi Kokkinakis.