In US Open tennis, Fourth seeds Mirza and her Chinese partner Shuai Peng took two hours and 13 minutes to beat Slovakian pairing of Jana Cepelova and Magdalena Rybarikova 6-7, 6-3, 6-3 to move into the third round of women's doubles. The duo will now take on Romanian-Spanish combination of Sorana Cirstea and Sara Sorribes Tormo for a place in the quarterfinals. Sania Mirza is already out of the mixed doubles event with her Croatian partner Ivan Dodig losing in the first round to Jelena Ostapenko and Fabrice Martin by 7-5, 3-6, 6-10. Meanwhile, French Open champions Bopanna and Gabriela Dabrowski of Canada beat British-Finnish pairing of Heather Watson and Henri Kontinen 6-4, 4-6, 13-11 in their opening round of Mixed Doubles. The win comes as a revenge for Bopanna and Dabrowski having lost to Watson and Kontinen at Wimbledon. They next face American-Spanish pairing of Nicholas Monroe and Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez in the second round.