MELBOURNE: It was a day of good quality results and an upset to India by Australian Open in Melbourne Park here on Thursday. While Leander Paes and Sania Mirza made the predictable advancement in the men’s and women’s doubles, Mahesh Bhupathi made a shock out of the Men’s Doubles event on a cloudy day.
Paes and Lukas Dlouhy, winners of two Grand slams in the last year, started 2010 on a positive note, and make rapid work of Czech pair Leos Friedl and David Skoch 6-3, 6-1 in an hour. From the moment the Indo-Czech pair broke their opponents’ serve up in the first game, it was about Paes and Dlouhý on the court No. 19, as No. 3 seeds under enemy control proceedings. Three service breaks followed Paes-Dlouhý favor, and the work was done on the tag of an hour.
Bhupathi said to have motivated the injury in Thursday, January 21, Men’s doubles first round match, which he suffered during perform on Monday, January 18
Pull-out marks the end to Bhupathi movement in the Australian Open, while partner Sania Mirza will continue to compete in the women’s doubles event. Mirza stopped out of the singles event after losing to Aravane Rezai of France in straight sets on Tuesday, January 19.
Bhupathi, who is pairing up with his former partner Max Mirnyi, is not the same destiny. After playing with the Bahama’s Mark Knowles of the past seasons, the couple determined to tear the end of last season, and Bangalorean determined to stand with the Belarusian Mirnyi, which he won the U.S. Open in 2004. And even though they have played many tournaments together, the duo does not pair up in more than five years now, and it showed Thursday.
