Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis advanced to the third round of the women's doubles at the US Open in New York on Saturday.The top-seeded pair of Sania and Hingis defeated the unseeded Timea Bacsinszky and Chia-Jung Chuang 6-1, 6-1.In mixed doubles, defending champions Sania and Bruno Soares lost 3-6, 3-6 to Czech Republic's Andrea Hlavackova-Lukasz Kubot in a first round contest.Earlier in the day, Leander Paes and Fernando Verdasco lost their second round match 5-7, 6-4, 3-6 to unseeded American giant-killing pair of Steve Johnson and Sam Querrey in the Men's Doubles. Paes made up for his doubles loss, as he and Martina Hingis displayed dominant form to down American pair of Claire Liu Taylor Harry Fritz 6-2, 6-2 to advance to the second round of Mixed Doubles.Second seeded Rohan Bopanna and his Chinese Taipei's Yung-Jan Chan advanced to the second round in the mixed doubles category, beating Spanish-Swiss pair of Fernando Verdasco and Belinda Bencic 6-4, 6-4. They will next face unseeded Russian-Austrian team of Alla Kudryavtseva and Alexander Peya in the second round.
News On AIR | September 6, 2015 7:43 AM
Sania Mirza, Martina Hingis advance to US Open Third Round