India's Leander Paes and Purav Raja sailed into the men's doubles second round of the US Open Tennis. Veteran Paes and Raja thrashed Serbia's Janko Tipsarevic and Viktor Troicki 6-1, 6-3. Paes and Raja will face the Russian team of Karen Khachanov and Andrey Rublev. However, Sania Mirza and Rohan Bopanna crashed out of their respective events. In the men's doubles second round match, 10th seeded combine of Bopanna and Uruguay's Pablo Cuevas, were defeated by former Australian Open winners Fabio Fognini and Simone Bolelli 5-7, 6-4, 6-4.Sania and her mixed doubles partner Ivan Dodig of Croatia lost to the Latvian-French pair of Jelena Ostapenko and Fabrice Martin 7-5, 3-6, 6-10.Both are, however, still in the tournament. Bopanna will play the first of his mixed doubles match with Canadian Gabriela Dabrowski and Sania and her Chinese partner Peng Shuai will look to advance to the second round of women's doubles.
News On AIR | September 2, 2017 1:36 PM
US Open: Leander Paes and Purav Raja reach second round; Sania Mirza, Rohan Bopanna lose