New Zealand Open: Rohan Kapoor-Kuhoo Garg and Shivam Sharma-S Ram Poorvisha enter 2nd round of mixed doubles

Auckland: The young Indian mixed doubles pair of Rohan Kapoor-Kuhoo Garg and Shivam Sharma-S Ram Poorvisha entered the second round of the $150,000 New Zealand Open Super 300 tournament on Tuesday. [caption id=“attachment_4452559” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] File image of Kuhoo Garg. Image Courtesy: Facebook[/caption] Rohan and Kuhoo, who had won the 2017 Hellas Open International Challenge and Iceland International challenge this year, defeated Israel’s Misha Zilberman and Ksenia Polikarpova 11-21, 21-7, 21-10 in a 42-minute match. Shivam Sharma and S Ram Poorvisha, meanwhile, beat the Australian pair of Niccolo Tagle and Fransisca Angelica Rahardja 21-19 21-11 in another match. Rohan and Kuhoo are likely to take on top seeds – Thailand’s Dechapol Puavaranukroh and Sapsiree Taerattanachai – while Shivam and Poorvisha face either the Korean combo of Min Hyuk Kang and Ha Na Baek or eighth-seeded Malaysian Chan Peng Soon and Liu Ying Goh. Indian shuttlers Ajay Jayaram, Sourabh Verma, B Sai Praneeth and Sameer Verma will begin their campaign on Wednesday.