Indian veteran Mahesh Bhupathi made a strong comeback to the circuit by winning his
men’s doubles first round but his former partner Leander Paes had to bite the dust as he
lost his opening match at the Australian Open.
Mahesh Bhupathi and his Luxembourg partner Gilles Muller took two hours and 13
minutes to oust local pair of Alex Bolt and Andrew Whittington 7-6(4), 3-6, 6-4.
After sharing the first two sets, it all boiled down to the decider where Bhupathi and
Muller got the one break of serve they needed to clinch the set and match and advance to
the second round.
Services both flourished and failed during the match. While 26 aces were fired in, 12 by
Bhupathi-Muller, both teams also served up five doubles faults each.
The Indo-Luxembourg pair won less points and served less winners than their
opponents, but they still managed to win the crucial points and the match.
Later, Paes and his partner Jeremy Chardy crashed out after losing in straight sets to the
Colombian pair of Juan Sebastian Cabal and Robert Farah. The 12th seeds took just an
hour and 12 minutes to clinch the match 6-3, 6-4.
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