Switzerland's Stanislas Wawrinka and India's Leander Paes discuss tactics during their doubles match at the Western & Southern Open at the Linder Family Tennis Center in Cincinnati, Ohio, on Monday. Photograph: Maddie Meyer/Getty Images
Leander Paes and Stanislas Wawrinka overcame a sluggish start to beat Kevin Anderson and Jeremy Chardy in the opening round of the Western and Southern Open, the ATP Masters event, in Cincinnati.
The unseeded Indo-Swiss pair dispatched the South African-French combo 1-6, 6-1, 10-6 to make it to the second round of the $4,457,065 hard court tournament.
Paes and singles World No 5 Wawrinka are contesting their second tournament together, having reached the quarter-finals at the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event in Paris last October.
They now face eighth-seeded pair of Canada's Vasek Pospisil and local boy Jack Sock, whom they had beaten 6-1, 6-4 in Paris last year.
