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Paes, Sania advance to mixed doubles quarters
Melbourne, Jan 26
India's Leander Paes and
Sania Mirza advanced to the quarter-finals of the of the mixed doubles
event, winning their respective matches at the Australian Open tennis
tournament here Monday.
Paes and Switzerland's Martina Hingis
moved to the last eight stage prevailing over Spanish pair of Pablo
Andujar and Anabel Medina Garrigues 6-3, 6-1 while top seeded Sania and
Brazilian Bruno Soares defeated unseeded Santiago Gonzalez of Mexico and
American Abigail Spears 7-5, 6-7 (3), 10-8 at the Melbourne Park.
The
seventh seeded Indo-Swiss pair took just 51 minutes to register a
comfortable victory which they dominated from the very beginning,
unleashing 26 winners and only two unforced errors.
They are
scheduled to play the winner of the second round match between unseeded
pair of Hao-Ching Chan of Chinese Taipei and Jamie Murray of Great
Britain and fourth seed Andrea Hlavackova of Czech Republic and Austrian
Alexander Peya.
Earlier in the day, the Indo-Brazilian pair of
Sania-Soares were made to sweat for their second round win, needing 93
minutes to claim the close contest.
The winning duo hit 45
winners compared to 33 by their opponents and committed 12 unforced
errors, two fewer than the losing team and claimed 86 points in total.
They
will nest play the victor of the second round match between Slovakian
Andreja Klepac-Australian Chris Guccione and the Australian pair of
Casey Dellacqua and John Peers.