New Delhi: Leander Paes and Meghann Shaughnessy are through to the third round in the mixed doubles.
The pair beat Sybille Bammer and Marcin Matkowski in a tie breaker. Paes-Shaughnessy took the first set 6-2 without much trouble but were routed in the second set losing 0-6.
However, the duo then came back in the tie breaker to win the third set 10-8 to book their place in the next round.
On the other hand it was the end of Sania Mirza's French Open campaign.
Sania partnering Fabrice Santoro in the mixed doubles lost to Katrina Srebotnik and Nenad Zimonjic in the second round. The sixth seeded pair beat Sania and Santoro 6-2, 7-6 (1).
Mahesh Bhupathi and his partner Radek Stepanek are also through to the fourth round of the men's doubles after the pair beat seventh seeds Jonathan Erlich and Andy Ram in straight sets 7-6, 6-4 in an hour and 30 minutes.
In the boy's singles Rupesh Roy was knocked out by Ricardas Berankis of Lithuania 6-7, 2-6.
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