leander Paes and his Canadian partner Daniel Nestor breezed into the third round in the men’s doubles event at the French Open, here on Friday with a straight-set victory over the German-Austrian pair of Andre Begemann and Julian Knowle.
The 10th seeded Indo-Canadian pair made short work of Begemann-Knowle winning in straight sets 7-6 (7-3), 6-2.
While the first set saw both pairs trade a break each, it went to the tie-breaker where the fancied pair of Paes-Nestor brought on all their experience into play winning it at 3. Top seeds Sania and her Swiss partner Martina Hingis defeated local pair of Stepahnie Foretz and Amandine Hesse 6-3, 6-4 in only 65 minutes.
Also advancing was Rohan Bopanna and Florin Mergea who beat Donald Young and Austin Krajicek 3-6, 6-3, 7-5.