Paes-Zimonjic win, Sania loses

Leander Paes [ Images ] remains the lone Indian hope at the French Open [ Images ] tennis tournament after Sania Mirza [ Images ] lost her doubles match at the Roland Garros [ Images ] in Paris, France [ Images ], on Friday.

Paes and Nenad Zimonjic continued their sturdy march, steamrolling the French pair of Nicolas Devilder and Marc Gicquel 6-1, 6-3 to reach the men's doubles third round.

Sania's campaign, however, came to an end when she and her Russian partner, Anna Chakvetadze [ Images ], were beaten 4-6, 7-4, 6-2 by 16th seeds Chinese Zi Yan and Jie Zhang.

The 18-year-old Indian had earlier lost in the singles first round.

Mahesh Bhupathi [ Images ] and Todd Woodbridge were upset in the first round by the United States' Kevin Kim and Hyung-Taik Lee of Korea on Thursday.