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Bhupathi-Mirnyi in 2nd round at Wimbledon

June 24, 2010 19:42 IST

Indian ace Mahesh Bhupathi [ Images ] and Max Mirnyi [ Images ] sailed into the second round of the men's doubles at Wimbledon [ Images ], scoring a straight-set victory over the Argentine duo of Maximo Gonzalez and Sebastian Prieto in London [ Images ] on Thursday.

The fourth-seeded Indo-Belarus pair won 7-5, 6-1, 7-5.

They now meet the British duo of Jamie Delgado and Joshua Goodall in the second round.

The Jamie-Joshua duo beat the Spanish pair of Nicolas Almagro and Santiago Ventura 5-7, 7-6, 6-1 6-3 in another opening round match.

Two other Indians are also in the fray in the doubles.

Leander Paes [ Images ] and his Czech partner Lukas Dlouhy [ Images ], seeded third in the grass court Grand Slam, won their opening round match over South African Rik De Voest and Germany's [ Images ] Mischa Zverev 6-7(4), 6-4, 6-3.

Rohan Bopanna [ Images ] and his Pakistani partner Aisam-Ul Haq Qureshi had defeated the pair of Somdev Devvarman [ Images ] of India [ Images ] and Treat Conrad Huey of Philippines in the first round.

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