Paes-Bhupathi move into third round of Australian Open

By IANS
Saturday, January 22, 2011

MELBOURNE - India’s Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi moved into the third round of the Australian Open with a 7-6 (2), 6-4 victory over Spain’s Feliciano Lopez and Argentina’s Juan Monaco here Saturday.

The third-seeded Indians will now play the Spanish pair of Marcel Granollers and Tommy Robredo, who defeated Alexandr Dolgopolov of Ukraine and Jan Hajek of the Czech Republic 7-5, 6-3.

Paes and Bhupathi, a former World No.1 pair, are playing together in a Grand Slam after nine years in their bid to complete a career slam.

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