In Tennis, Sania Mirza and Rohan Bopanna, with their team-mates, today advanced to the second round of Australian Open, the first Grand Slam of the season, at Melbourne. In their opening round matches, while fourth seeds Sania and Barbora Strycova of the Czech Republic defeated the British team of Jocelyn Rae and Anna Smith, 6-3, 6-1, the 15th placed Indo-Uruguayan pair of Bopanna and Pablo Cuevas beat the Brazilian-Argentine duo of Thomaz Bellucci and Maximo Gonzalez, 6-4, 7-6.Leander Paes and his Brazilian partner Andre Sa and the other Indian pair of Purav Raja and Divij Sharan are yet to begin their campaign.In the Singles, world number one Angelique Kerber, Roger Federer, Stanislas Wawrinka, Kei Nishikori, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Venus Williams were among those who advanced to the third round today.
News On AIR | January 18, 2017 12:49 PM
Sania, Bopanna advance to 2nd round of Australian Open