<p>London: India’s Rohan Bopanna and his Australian partner Matthew Ebden moved into the second round of the Wimbledon men’s doubles event with a smooth win over Robin Haas and Sander Arends here.</p>.<p>Bopanna and Ebden sailed past their Dutch opponents 7-5, 6-4 in an hour and 11 minutes in a rain-interrupted match on Wednesday.</p>.<p>The second seeds, who are the current Australian Open champions, will face Germany's Hendrik Jebens and Constantin Frantzen in the second round.</p>.<p>The Indo-Australian pair had reached the semifinals of the season's third Grand Slam last year.</p>.Bopanna's academy launches tennis programme for underprivileged children.<p>Earlier on Wednesday, India's Sumit Nagal and his Serbian partner Dusan Lajovic were ousted in the first round by Spaniards Pedro Martinez and Jaume Munar.</p>.<p>Martinez and Munar won 6-2, 6-2 in one hour and seven minutes.</p>.<p>India will have further representation in men's doubles first round through N Sriram Balaji and Yuki Bhambri later on Thursday.</p>.<p>Balaji will partner Britain's Luke Johnson and will face fourth seeds Mate Pavic of Serbia and Marcelo Arevalo of El Salvador.</p>.<p>On the other hand, Bhambri and France's Albano Olivetti will take on the Kazakh duo of Alexander Bublik and Alexander Shevchenko.</p>
<p>London: India’s Rohan Bopanna and his Australian partner Matthew Ebden moved into the second round of the Wimbledon men’s doubles event with a smooth win over Robin Haas and Sander Arends here.</p>.<p>Bopanna and Ebden sailed past their Dutch opponents 7-5, 6-4 in an hour and 11 minutes in a rain-interrupted match on Wednesday.</p>.<p>The second seeds, who are the current Australian Open champions, will face Germany's Hendrik Jebens and Constantin Frantzen in the second round.</p>.<p>The Indo-Australian pair had reached the semifinals of the season's third Grand Slam last year.</p>.Bopanna's academy launches tennis programme for underprivileged children.<p>Earlier on Wednesday, India's Sumit Nagal and his Serbian partner Dusan Lajovic were ousted in the first round by Spaniards Pedro Martinez and Jaume Munar.</p>.<p>Martinez and Munar won 6-2, 6-2 in one hour and seven minutes.</p>.<p>India will have further representation in men's doubles first round through N Sriram Balaji and Yuki Bhambri later on Thursday.</p>.<p>Balaji will partner Britain's Luke Johnson and will face fourth seeds Mate Pavic of Serbia and Marcelo Arevalo of El Salvador.</p>.<p>On the other hand, Bhambri and France's Albano Olivetti will take on the Kazakh duo of Alexander Bublik and Alexander Shevchenko.</p>