US Open 2017: Sania Mirza, Rohan Bopanna win to advance to next round

Sania Mirza and Rohan Bopanna won their respective matches in New York on Saturday to advance to the next rpund at the US Open.

Sania and her Chinese partner Shuai Peng defeated Slovakian pairing of Jana Cepelova and Magdalena Rybarikova 6-7(5), 6-3, 6-3 to enter the third round of women's doubles. It was a good test for fourth seeds who took the match home in two hours and 13 minutes. 

The pair will now meet Romanian-Spanish combine of Sorana Cirstea and Sara Sorribes Tormo for a place in the quarterfinals.

However, Sania and her mixed doubles partner Ivan Dodig of Croatia lost to the Latvian-French pair of Jelena Ostapenko and Fabrice Martin 7-5, 3-6, 6-10.

French Open champions Rohan Bopanna and Gabriela Dabrowski beat British-Finnish pairing of Heather Watson and Henri Kontinen 6-4, 4-6, 13-11 in their opener in an hour and 17 minutes on Court 11 of the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center.

The Indo-Canadian mixed doubles seventh seeds will face American-Spanish combination of Nicholas Monroe and Marafa­a Jose Martafa­nez Saƒainchez in the second round.