India's [ Images ] doubles specialist Leander Paes [ Images ] and his partner David Rikl of the Czech Republic moved into the second round of the men's doubles at Wimbledon [ Images ] with a fluent straight sets victory on Thursday.

The fifth seeded pair defeated Spaniards Juan Ignacio Carrasco and Juan Carlos Ferrero [ Images ] 6-3, 6-3, 6-4 in a first round match on court 19.

Paes and Rikl will take on the German pairing of Nicolas Kiefer [ Images ] and David Prinosil in the second round.

Second seeds Mark Knowles [ Images ] of the Bahamas and Daniel Nestor [ Images ] of Canada [ Images ] also made it to the second round, but only after going through several anxious moments in their match against  Russia's [ Images ] Andrei Olhovskiy and Sargis Sargsian of Armenia. They won 7-6(4), 7-6(4), 7-6(6).

There was an upset of sorts when 16th seeds Tomas Cibulec and Pavel Vizner of the Czech Republic went down to Dominic Hrbaty of Slovakia and Andre Sa [ Images ] of Brazil [ Images ] 6-2, 3-6, 3-6, 4-6.

Top seeds Mahesh Bhupathi [ Images ] of India and Max Mirnyi [ Images ] of Belarus take on James Auckland and Lee Childs of Great Britain in an afternoon match on Thursday.