India's Mahesh Bhupathi and Max Mirnyi of Belarus advanced to the men's doubles second round at the US Open tennis tournament.

The fourth-seeded pair of Bhupathi and Mirnyi dispatched Frenchmen Arnaud Clement and Nicolas Mahut 6-1, 6-4 here Wednesday and next play Argentina's Eduardo Schwank and Horacio Zeballos.

It was the end of the road for India's Rohan Bopanna and China's Zi Yan in the mixed doubles as they lost 2-6, 4-6 to France's Aravane Rezai and American Rajeev Ram in the first round.