Sania Mirza entered the mixeddoubles second round with a new partner, but the MaheshBhupahti-Rohan Bopanna combo made a shock first-round exitfrom the men's doubles event of the US Open here.
Sania ended her successful partnership with Bhupahti inthe mixed doubles circuit after being "sacrificed" by theveteran in the infamous Olympic selection row in July.
And the Hyderabadi made a freash start with EnglishmanColin Fleming when the duo defeated the British-Americancombination of Andrea Petkovic and Eric Butorac 6-2 7-6 (5).
Sania and Fleming will now be up against winners of thematch between Americans Melanie Oudin and Jack Sock and thefifth-seeded Slovak-Serbian pair of Katarina Srebotnik andNenad Zimonjic.
In men's doubles, Bhupathi and Bopanna, who have beendumped from the Indian Davis Cup team for revolting againstthe All India Tennis Assoiation before the Olympics, wereshown the door in the first round itself.
The eighth-seeded Indian team was defeated 3-6 6-7 (4) byunseeded Australians Matthew Ebden and Bernard Tomic.
But Leander Paes sailed into the second round with Czechpartner Radek Stepanek. The fifth-seeded team outplayed theunseeded German duo of Dustin Brown and Christopher Kas 6-36-3.