French Open 2017: Rohan Bopanna sails into men's doubles round two; Sania Mirza bows out of women's doubles

Paris: Rohan Bopanna crossed the first- round hurdle in men's doubles but Sania Mirza bowed out in the opening round of the women's doubles event in the French Open here today.

Bopanna along with his Uruguayan partner Pablo Cuevas hardly had to break a sweat as they outplayed the French duo of Mathias Bourgue and Paul-Henri Mathieu in a one-sided contest.

The ninth seeded Indo-Uruguayan pair posted a comfortable 6-1 6-1 victory over French combination in just 53 minutes.

They will next take on Treat Huey and Denis Istomin.

However, fourth seeded pair of Sania and Yaroslava Shvedova of Kazakhstan were stunned by unseeded Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of Russia and Australia's Daria Gavrilova in a hard-fought match.

Sania and Shvedova went down 6-7 (5-7) 6-1 2-6 to Pavlyuchenkova and Gavrilova in a gruelling battle that lasted 2 hours and 23 minutes.