The 'Indian Express' made inroads at Roland Garros but on different tracks. Both, Leander Paes [Images] and Mahesh Bhupathi [Images], entered the second round of the mixed doubles at the French Open with their respective American partners.

Paes and Martina Navratilova defeated French pair Stephanie Foretz and Nicolas Devilder 6-4, 6-3 while Bhuptahi and Lisa Raymond dismissed Jonathan Erlich of Israel and Virginia Ruano Pascual of Spain 6-3, 6-4 in Paris on Saturday.

Paes is also in the third round of the men's doubles. He and partner Nenad Zimonjic had beaten the French pair of Nicolas Devilder and Marc Gicquel 6-1, 6-3 to make the grade.

Bhupathi will square up against his doubles partner Todd Woodbridge of Australia [Images], who teams up with Katarina Srebotnik of Slovenia for the second round clash.

Paes and Navratilova will play Simon Aspelin of Sweden and Dinara Safina of Russia [Images] next.

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