Tough mixed doubles draw for Sania

Melbourne: Leander Paes and his French team mate Nathalie Dechy will have to create the biggest upset in mixed double to upstage the top seeds while Sania Mirza and her Australian team mate Stephen Huss were also handed a tough draw in the Australian Open.

The other Indian in the fray, Mahesh Bhupathi -- who teams up with comeback star Martina Hingis -- has a relatively easier draw which pits the Indo-Swiss pair against Yeu-Tzuoo Wang (Taipei) and Na Li (China).

The Paes-Dechy duo finds themselves with an unenviable task of pulling the rug from under the feet of top seeds Kevin Kevin Ullyett (South Africa) and Cara Black (Zimbabwe) and it looks hardly better for Sania.

Already out of the singles and doubles events, Sania and Huss will have to come up with something extra-ordinary to topple the third seeded US-Russian pair of Bob Bryan and Vera Zvonareva.