Leander Paes - Martina Hingis advanced to the second round of the mixed doubles at the Australian Open . Image Source : india.com[/caption]Melbourne: Both Leander Paes and Rohan Bopanna advanced to the second round of the Australian Open mixed doubles on Sunday.
Paes and Martina Hingis of Switzerland posted a 6-3, 7-5 win over Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and Dominic Inglot in an hour and nine minutes. Third seeded Bopanna and Yung-Jan Chan of Chinese Taipei also hardly broke a sweat before prevailing over the Australian pair John Millman and Kimberly Birrell, 7-5 6-1 in 48 minutes.
Paes and Hingis will next take on American Sloane Stephens and Jean-Julien Rojer. Bopanna and Chan face Andrea Hlavackova and Lukasz Kubot in round two.
However, Bopanna's campaign got over in men's doubles as he and Mergea, seeded fourth, were handed a shock 4-6, 3-6 defeat by 14th seeded duo Treat Huey and Max Mirnyi.
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