Australia's mixed doubles squash champions, Donna Lobban and Cameron Pilley, have survived another "speed bump" in their Commonwealth Games title defence.
And the cousins believe other pairs will be now increasingly wary of them on the road to the medals.
Lobban and Pilley downed India's Joshana Chinappa and Harinder Pal Singh Sandhu in straight sets, 11-8 11-9, in a round of 16 encounter on Thursday in Birmingham.
"Every single team is a potential speed bump," Pilley said.
"We're not even seeded in the top four so probably the seeds ... if they see us along their road, they are probably more worried about us, being defending champs."
Pilley retired three years after his triumph with Lobban on home soil on the Gold Coast but was lured back by the potential of another gold medal.
"When you go to the Comm Games ... you're not going in hoping for a medal, you're going for gold," he said.
"Having done that once, for us it was the best thing ever. So we're going after it again."
But Lobban cautioned against any complacency.
"There's probably 10 teams that are capable of winning it, it's very even ... (but) we're in it with a chance, for sure," she said.
Australia's flag-bearer Rachael Grinham and her mixed doubles partner Zac Alexander also won their round of 16 encounter on Thursday, defeating England's Georgina Kennedy and Patrick Rooney, 11-8 11-6.
Alexander and his men's doubles partner Ryan Cuskelly had earlier Thursday breezed past Cayman Islands duo Jake Kelly and Jace Jervis, winning 11-2 11-1.
