Bhupathi/Paes and Bopanna/Qureshi advance at US Open
Indian duo Mahesh Bhupathi and Leander Paes have survived their first round today at the US Open against Alexandr Dolgopolov of Ukraine and Albert Ramos of Spain.
Bhupathi and Paes won 80 per cent of their service points during the one hour and 25 minutes on court today. This is Bhupathi’ 16th US Open and Paes’ 17th appearance. Bhupathi won the title in 2002 and Paes has two titles from 2006 and 2009.
The number four seeds will play the winner of Florian Mayer of Germany and Rogier Wassen of Holland and Marc Gicquel and Gael Monfils of France.
The Indo/Pak Express was also successful in the first round today. Rohan Bopanna of India and Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi of Pakistan won in three sets over American wildcards Robby Ginepri and Rhyne Williams 6-1 2-6 6-2.
Bopanna and Qureshi are waiting to see which of the following teams of Trevor Parrott and Bobby Reynolds of America and James Cerretani of America and Philipp Marx of Germany.
The Polish team of Mariusz Fyrstenberg and Marcin Matkowski defeated another American wildcard team in the first round. The Poles beat Michael Shabaz and Ryan Sweeting 4-6 6-2 6-1 to advance into the second round. Fyrstenberg and Matkowski set up a meeting with the winner of Oliver Rochus of Belgium and Andre Sa of Brazil or Julian Knowle of Austria and Horacio Zeballos of Argentina.
The American team of Bradley Klahn and David Martin lost in the first round to the number seven seeds Robert Lindstedt of Sweden and Horia Tecau of Romania 6-4 6-4.
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