India's Rohan Bopanna and Prakash Amritraj kept their Australian Open hopes alive as they won their respective first round qualifying matches in Melbourne on Wednesday.

Top Indian player Bopanna beat Japan's [Images] Gouichi Motomura 6-3, 6-4 while Amritraj quashed a challenge from Hugo Armando of USA 6-4, 7-5 to advance into the second round.

Bopanna will next face USA's Sam Warburg, ranked 172 in the world, and Amritraj takes on exciting 15-year-old German-born-Croatian-Australian Bernard Tomic, who ousted the 25th seed Yeu-Tzuoo Wang of Taiwan 4-6, 7-6 (13), 7-5.

Rajeev Ram, an American player of Indian origin, was also through to the second round. He scored a comfortable 6-3, 6-3 win over Ukraine's Sergiy Stakhovsky and next meets Australia's Carsten Ball.

Pakistan's Aisam Qureshi, seeded 16th, crashed out after a 7-5, 3-6, 3-6 defeat against Swiss Stephane Bohli.

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