Australian Open 2016: Sania, Bopanna makes it to Round 2

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New Delhi/ 21 Jan 2016. It proved to be a good day for Indian tennis players at the Australian Open as they enjoyed comfortable wins. Tennis star Sania Mirza entered the second round with partner Martina Hingis while Rohan Bopanna also registered a win in the men’s doubles first round in Melbourne.

Continuing their winning streak, Sania and Hingis served past Mariana Duque-Marino and Teliana Pereira 6-2, 6-3 in the women’s doubles opening round. The top seeded pair hardly broke a sweat in its 70-minute win against the unseeded Colombian-Brazilian pair.

Sania and Hingis will face the twin sisters from Ukraine, Nadiia Kichenok and Lyudmyla Kichenok, in the next round.

Rohan Bopanna, who took court soon after, combined well with Romanian partner Florin Mergea and defeated the Australian duo of Omar Jasika and Nick Kyrgios 7-5 6-3. The fourth seeds will play Lukas Dlouhy and Jiri Vesely in the second round.