Sania, Bopanna advance; Paes’ campaign ends

NEW YORK: India’s Sania Mirza and Rohan Bopanna progressed with their partners but Leander Paes’ campaign ended after the veteran suffered a second round defeat

Published on: Sep 5, 2016, 07:38:40 IST

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NEW YORK: India’s Sania Mirza and Rohan Bopanna progressed with their partners but Leander Paes’ campaign ended after the veteran suffered a second round defeat with Martina Hingis in mixed doubles.

Sania and Barbora Strycova of Czech Republic advanced to the third round of the women’s doubles after a 6-2, 7-6(5) win over Viktorija Golubic and Nicole Melichar.

The seventh seeded pair will meet unseeded Nicole Gibbs and Nao Hibino next.

Bopanna and his Canadian partner Gabriela Dabrowski defeated Lukasz Kubot and Andrea Hlavackova 5-7, 6-3, 10-7 to move into the quarterfinals. The pair will next meet unseeded pair of Robert Farah and Anna-Lena Grönefeld.

However, defending champions Paes and Hingis lost to American seventh seeds Coco Vandeweghe and Rajeev Ram 7-6 (1), 3-6, 13-11 after leading 8-4 in the tiebreaker.

Later in the day, Mirza’s campaign in the mixed doubles came to an end as she and her Croatian partner Ivan Dodig lost their second round match to Barbora Krejcikova of Czech Republic and Marin Draganja of Croatia 3-6, 4-6.

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