Indian tennis ace Rohan Bopanna and his Hungarian partner Timea Babos marched into the mixed doubles pre-quarter finals of the Australian Open with a straight sets victory in their last-32 clash on Sunday. The Indo-Hungarian pair brushed aside the duo of Ellen Perez and Andrew Whittington 6-2, 6-4 on the Margaret Court Arena. King and Skugor had already reached the pre-quarters by seeing off the Australian pair of Anastasia Rodionova and J. Smith. Earlier, veteran Indian doubles legend Leander Paes and Purav Raja crashed out of the Australian Open after losing to Juan Cabal and Robert Farah in Men's Double third round on January 21 at Court 8. The Indian pair lost to the 11th seeded Colombian duo 1-6, 2-6, in an hour-and-nine-minute-long match.

Source: dna January 21, 2018 10:52 UTC