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Bhupathi-Woodbridge advance
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March 28, 2005 16:17 IST

Mahesh Bhupathi [Images] and Todd Woodbridge of Australia moved into the second round while Leander Paes [Images] and Nenad Zimonjic of Serbia made a first round exit in the doubles event of the Nasdaq Open-100 tennis tournament at Key Biscayne, Miami [Images] on Sunday.

Fifth seeded Bhupathi and his Australian partner defeated Jiri Novak and David Rikl of Czech Republic 7-6 (7-3), 6-2 in the opening round of the USD 3,450,000 Tier 1 event.

The duo will next play Americans Graydon Oliver and Travis Parrott.

Paes and Zimonjic, the seventh seeds, lost after a tough three-set battle against Jose Acasuso of Argentina and Nicholas Lapentti of Ecuador. They went down 6-7 (7-9), 7-6 (10-8), 3-6.

Acasuso and Lapentti will now face Jonathan Erlich and Andy Ram of Israel in the second round.



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