In French Open tennis, Sania Mirza stormed into the quarterfinals of mixed doubles event as she and her partner Ivan Dodig of Croatia notched up a commanding win over their opponents in Paris today. The Sania-Dodig pair beat the duo of Elina Svitolina of Ukraine and Artem Sitak of New Zealand 6-2 6-4 in a second round match to book a last-eight spot. However, Rohan Bopanna, partnering with Pablo Cuevas of Uruguay, crashed out of the men's doubles event after losing to Jamie Murray and Bruno Soares 6-7 2-6 in a third round match.The Indian men's doubles duo of Purav Raja and Divij Sharan also lost their third round match to the pair of Ryan Harrison and Michael Venus 6-4 6-7 2-6. Meanwhile, Zeel Desai lost her girls' singles opening round match to Daniela Vismane of Latvia 0-6 2-6. In boys' singles also, Abhimanyu Vannemreddy lost his opening round match against Clement Tabur of France 0-6 1-6.
News On AIR | June 5, 2017 1:38 AM
French Open: Sania storms into mixed doubles quarters