Australian Open: Rohan Bopanna-Timea Babos in mixed doubles quarter-finals

Rohan Bopanna and his Hungarian partner Timea Babos reached the Australian Open mixed doubles quarter-finals after registering a 6-4, 6-4 win over Vania King and Croatia’s Franko Skugor.

India’s Rohan Bopanna and his partner Timea Babos entered the quarter-finals of the Australian Open mixed doubles event with a straight sets win, on Tuesday.

Rohan Bopanna-Timea Babos will take on Sebastian Cabal-Abigail Spears in the Australian Open mixed doubles quarter-finals. (AP)

The fifth-seeded pairing of Bopanna and Babos beat USA’s Vania King and Croatia’s Franko Skugor 6-4 6-4 at the Melbourne Park.

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The match, which lasted a little over an hour, saw Bopanna and Babos break in the third game of the opening set to take a 2-1 lead.

In the fifth game of the second set, Bopanna and Babos broke Skugor’s and made it 3-2. The Indo-Hungarian pair sent down eight aces compared to their opponents’ five.

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Bopanna and Babos had dispatched the unseeded Australian pairing of Whittington and Perez 6-2 6-4 in the previous round.

Bopanna now remains the only Indian in title contention at the Australian Open.

Leander Paes, Purav Raja, Divij Sharan and Bopanna himself lost in the third round of the men’s doubles competition on Monday.