Defending champions Leander Paes [ Images ] and Lukas Dlouhy [ Images ] have been seeded third for the men's doubles at the French Open [ Images ].

They open their campaign against Swede Johan Brunstrom and Jean-Julien Rojer of the Netherlands.

Mahesh Bhupathi [ Images ] and his Belarussian partner Max Mirnyi [ Images ] are seeded fifth and pitted against Jurgen Melzer [ Images ] of Austria and Philipp Petzschner of Germany [ Images ] in their opening match.

Another up and coming pair, Indian Davis Cupper Rohan Bopanna [ Images ] and Pakistan's Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi [ Images ] will take on Italian Fabio Fognini and American Michael Russell.

Bopanna and Qureshi finished runners-up at the ATP Nice event last week in the run-up to the clay court Grand Slam.