Paes, Bopanna advance; Mirza knocked out of French Open

Update: 2017-05-31 18:11 GMT

Rohan Bopanna and Leander Paes crossed the first-round hurdle in men's doubles with their respective partners while Sania Mirza crashed out of the women's doubles after a first-round loss at the French Open. Bopanna along with partner Pablo Cuevas outplayed the French duo of Mathias Bourgue and Paul-Henri Mathieu in a one-sided contest. The ninth seeded Indo-Uruguayan pair posted a comfortable 6-1 6-1 victory.


Later in the day, Paes and his American partner defeated Radu Albot of Moldova and Hyeon Chung of South Korea 7-6 (7- 5), 4-6, 6-2 while fourth seeded pair of Sania and Yaroslava Shvedova of Kazakhstan were stunned by unseeded Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of Russia and Australia's Daria Gavrilova. 

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