Paes-Dlouhy in second round

Leander Paes [ Images ] and his Czech partner Lukas Dlouhy [ Images ] sailed into the second round of the men's doubles at the French Open [ Images ] with a straight-sets win over locals Sebastien de Chaunac and Benoit Paire in Paris on Wednesday night.

The third seeds won 6-1, 6-3 and set up a clash with another unseeded duo -- James Cerretani and Sergiy Stakhovsky.

The Ukrainian-American pair defeated Spaniards Nicolas Almagro and Ivan Navarro 6-2, 4-6, 6-2 in another first round match.

Sania Mirza [ Images ] and Chia-Jung Chuang [ Images ] of Chinese Taipei (Taiwan) also sailed into the women's doubles second round after a 7-5, 6-1 victory over Ipek Senoglu of Turkey and Yanina Wickmayer of Belarus.

The 14th seeds next face the Polish pair of Agnieszka Radwanska [ Images ] and Urszula Radwanska, who beat Ukraine's Viktoriya Kutuzova and Aravane Rezai [ Images ] of France [ Images ] 6-2, 6-1. 

Sania bowed out of the singles competition, losing to Kazakhstan's Galina Voskoboeva in the first round on Tuesday.

India's [ Images ] Rohan Bopanna [ Images ] and Jonathan Elrich of Israel lost a tough first-round encounter to Guillermo Garcia-Lopez of Spain and Sergio Roitman of Argentina 4-6, 6-7 (10).