In Tennis, Hungarian-French pairing and fifth seeds Timea Babos and Kristina Mladenovic won the Australian Open women's doubles title in Melbourne today and were crowned Grand Slam champions for the first time. The duo battled past second-seeded Russians Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina 6-4, 6-3 in the finals. Overall, they own three other doubles titles as a team, all in 2015 – at Dubai, Marrakech and Rome.India's Rohan Bopanna inched closer towards his second Grand Slam title by reaching the mixed doubles final of the Australian Open along with Hungarian partner Timea Babos. The pair beat Brazilian Marcelo Demoliner and Spain's Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez 7-5, 5-7, 10-6 in the semifinal. Bopanna had won his maiden Grand Slam crown at the 2017 French Open, where he won with Canadian Gabriela Dabrowski. In men's singles, defending champion Roger Federer eased into his seventh Australian Open final today. He was leading 6-1, 5-2 in the semi-final when South Korean Chung Hyeon retired suffering from foot blisters. Federer will now face Marin Cilic of Croatia in his 30th Grand Slam final on Sunday.