Leander Paes-Purav Raja in second round; Sania Mirza, Rohan Bopanna lose

New York, Sep 2 India's Leander Paes and Purav Raja cruised into the men's doubles second round in the pair's first outing at a Grand Slam yet Sania Mirza and Rohan Bopanna crashed out of their separate events in the US Open here.

Veteran Paes and Raja whipped Serbia's Janko Tipsarevic and Viktor Troicki 6-1, 6-3 at the Flushing Meadows.

The tenth seeded combine of Bopanna and Uruguay's Pablo Cuevas, in the mean time, wasted a one-put preferred standpoint to go down to the previous Australian Open champs Fabio Fognini and Simone Bolelli, 5-7, 6-4, 6-4 out of a hour and 47 minutes in the men's duplicates second round match.

Sania and her mixed doubles partner Ivan Dodig of Croatia lost to the Latvian-French combine of Jelena Ostapenko and Fabrice Martin 7-5, 3-6, 6-10.

Both are, be that as it may, even now in the competition - Bopanna will play the first of his blended copies coordinate with Canadian Gabriela Dabrowski and Sania and her Chinese accomplice Peng Shuai will hope to progress to the second round of ladies' pairs.

Divij Sharan who was matched up with No. 66 Andre Begemann lost 4-6, 4-6 to Spaniards Feliciano Lopez and Marc Lopez.

Paes and Raja's development to the competition was a long way from perfect as they capitulated to an opening round annihilation at the Winston-Salem Open.

In any case, the Indian duo bounced back in style here, changing over 40 percent of their break points while yielding none.

Paes and Raja next face the Russian team of Karen Khachanov and Andrey Rublev.