MELBOURNE: Sania Mirza and Rohan Bopanna advanced to the quarterfinals of the women’s and mixed doubles events respectively after notching up contrasting victories with their partners at the Australian Open here on Monday.
On a record-winning streak, Sania and her Swiss partner Martina Hingis continued to rule the roost as the duo brushed aside Russia’s Svetlana Kuznetsova and Italy’s Roberta Vinci 6-1, 6-3 in a contest that lasted an hour and 21 minutes.
In mixed doubles, Bopanna and Yung-Jan Chan of Chinese Taipei also continued their winning run, edging out Czech Andrea Hlavackova and Lukasz Kubot of Poland 4-6, 6-3, [10-6] in the second round. Among other Indians, in the junior girls’ singles category, 10th seed Y. Pranjala saw off Mira Antonitsch of Austria 7-6(5), 6-3, while Karman Kaur Thandi defeated Hungary’s Panna Udvardy 6-4, 6-2 in another match. In the junior girls’ doubles category, Karman and Pranjala combined well to prevail over the local pair of Petra Hule and Selina Turulja 6-4, 6-3.–PTI
