India's Leander Paes, Sania Mirza, Rohan Bopanna and Divij Sharan, with their partners, will play their Doubles second round matches of the US Open Tennis tournament in New York today.In the Men's Doubles, the fourth seeded Indo-Czech pair of Paes and Radek Stepanek will take on the German-Austrian team of Daniel Brands and Philipp Oswald; the sixth seeded Indo-French duo of Bopanna and Edouard Roger-Vasselin will clash with the Russian pair of Nikolay Davydenko and Mikhail Elgin; while Divij Sharan and his teammate from Chinese Taipei, Yen-Hsun Lu will meet the Israeli team of Jonathan Erlich and Andy Ram.In the Women's Doubles second round, the tenth seeded Indo-Chinese pair of Sania Mirza and Jie Zheng will play against the Hungarian-American team of Katalin Marosi and Megan Moulton-Levy.In the Singles, Spaniards Rafael Nadal and David Ferrer, Swiss Roger Federer, Victoria Azarenka of Belarus, Denmark's Caroline Wozniacki and Italian Roberta Vinci will be seen in action in the third round today.On Friday night, Somdev Devvarman crashed out of the tournament, after losing to Italy's Andreas Seppi, 6-7, 4-6, 5-7 in the Men's Singles second round. Somdev was the only player representing India in the Singles section.In the Mixed Doubles, Sania Mirza and Rohan Bopanna, with their partners, bowed out of the tournament. In their opening round, the Indo-Romanian pair of Sania Mirza and Horia Tecau lost to the American-Brazilian combination of Liezel Huber and Marcelo Melo, 6-4, 6-7, 4-10, while the Indo-German duo of Bopanna and Julia Goerges lost to the American-Mexican team of Abigail Spears and Santiago Gonzalez, 7-6, 2-6, 6-10.
News On AIR | August 31, 2013 10:05 AM
Indian players with their partners to play their US Open Doubles second round matches today<br/>