French Open: Paes-Dlouhy seeded third, Bhupathi-Mirnyi fifth

PARIS - Defending Champions Leander Paes of India and Lukas Dlouhy of Czech Republic have been seeded third while India’s Mahesh Bhupathi and Max Mirnyi of Belarus are seeded fifth at the French Open.

Paes and Dlouhy face Sweden’s Johan Brunstrom and Jean-Julien Rojer of the Netherland Antilles in the first round while Bhupathi and Mirnyi meet Jurgen Melzer of Austria and Germany’s Philipp Petzschner in their opening round.

India’s Rohan Bopanna and Pakistan’s Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi are also in the fray and they square up against Italy’s Fabio Fognini and American Michael Russell in the first round.