Australian Open 2023: Rohan Bopanna, Sania Mirza enter mixed doubles semi-finals
The Indian team of Rohan Bopanna and Sania Mirza has not yet dropped a set in the mixed team competition.
Sania Mirza and Rohan Bopanna in action during their Australian Open mixed doubles second-round match against Makoto Ninomiya and Ariel Behar. Image: Tanuj Lakhina
The Indian team of Rohan Bopanna and Sania Mirza moved to the Australian Open mixed doubles semi-finals without moving a sinew as they got a walk over from Jelena Ostapenko and David Vega Hernandez on Tuesday.
The Indian team has not yet dropped a set in the mixed team competition.
They now await the winner of the quarter-final between the pairs of third seeded Desirae Krawczyk and Neal Skupski and Taylor Townsend and Jamie Murray.
Bopanna and his partner Mathew Ebden, seeded 10th, had made a first round exit from the men’s doubles event, while Mirza and her Kazkah partner Anna Danilina had lost in the women’s doubles second round.
Ramkumar Ramanathan and his Mexican partner Miguel Angel Reyes-Varela, Yuki Bhambri and Saketh Myneni had also made first round exits.
Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan and N Sriram Balaji had reached the second round before bowing out.
No Indian featured in men’s singles competition.
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