Bhupathi-Mirnyi in next round

New Delhi, May 26: India’s Mahesh Bhupathi and Max Mirnyi of Belarus have made it to the second round of the men’s doubles with a 6-3, 6-2 win over Jurgen Melzer of Austria and Philipp Petzschner of Germany in the French Open tennis here Wednesday.

The fifth-seeded Indo-Belarusian pair needed just 58 minutes to progress.

They next play Spaniards Marc Lopez and Pere Riba, who showed the door to Frenchman Jonathan Eysseric Benoit Paire 6-2, 6-4.

—Agencies