Mumbai, Sep 28 (IANS) Leander Paes pairing with Aisham Qureshi of Pakistan defeated Ramon Delegado of Paraguay and Konstantinos Economidis of Greece 6-4, 6-4 in the doubles first round of the inaugural Kingfisher Airlines Tennis Open tournament here Wednesday.

In other matches, Dennis Gremelmayr and Simon Greul of Germany defeated Lukasz Kubot of Poland and Robin Vik of Czech Republic 1-6, 6-4, 10-5 while the British duo James Auckland and Jamie Delgado outplayed the Italian pair of Stefano Galvani and Davide Sanguinetti 6-3, 5-7, 10-8.

For India, it was bad news in the singles as wild card holder Akash Wagh lost to Russian Dmitry Tursunov 2-6, 5-7.

Top seed Tommy Robredo of Spain had an easy 6-4, 6-2 win over Alexander Peya of Austria while third seed Thomas Berdych of the Czech Republic thrashed Kobot 6-2, 6-2.

Frenchman Nicholas Devilder defeated Rik de Voest of South Africa 6-4, 4-6, 6-3.