Indian tennis stars enjoyed their comfortable wins in Australian Open on Thursday as Sania Mirza eased into the second round with her partner Martina Hingis while Rohan Bopanna also registered straight sets win in the men's doubles first round.
Sania's rampaging run with her Swiss partner continued as the duo stretched its winning streak to 31 after brushing aside Mariana Duque-Marino and Teliana Pereira with 6-2, 6-3 in the women's doubles opening round. The duo hardly broke a sweat in its 70-minute win against the unseeded Colombian-Brazilian pair.
Bopanna, who took court soon after combined well with Romanian partner Florin Mergea to outplay the Australian duo of Omar Jasika and Nick Kyrgios with 7-5, 6-3. The fourth seeds play Lukas Dlouhy and Jiri Vesely in the second round.
Indian veteran Mahesh Bhupathi has already booked his second-round berth along with partner Gilles Muller while Leander Paes bowed out after a first-round loss alongside French partner Jeremy Chardy on Wednesday.
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