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Bhupathi-Malisse in third round

June 03, 2006

Mahesh Bhupathi and Xavier Malisse of Belgium advanced to the third round of the men's doubles at the French Open tennis championships in Paris on Friday.

The unseeded Indo-Belgian pair defeated the Argentine duo of Jose Acasuso and Sebastian Prieto 6-4, 6-3 in the second round.

They next play either Switzerland's Yves Allegro and Stanislas Wawrinka or fifth seeds Jonathan Erlich and Andy Ram of Israel.

Later in the day, Bhupathi combined with 'Swiss Miss' Martina Hingis to defeat Sofia Arvidsson of Sweden and Aussie Stephen Huss 7-5, 6-2 in the first round of the mixed doubles.

On Thursday, India's Leander Paes and the Czech Republic's Martin Damm crashed out of the men's doubles, losing to Serbia's Janko Tipsarevic and Mikhail Youzhny of Russia 1-6, 6-7(4).

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