Australian Open: Rohan Bopanna, Timea Babos advance to mixed doubles pre-quarters

Melbourne: Indian tennis ace Rohan Bopanna and his Hungarian partner Tímea Babos marched into the mixed doubles pre-quarterfinals at the Australian Open with a straight-sets victory in their last-32 clash on Sunday.

The Indo-Hungarian pair brushed aside the duo of Ellen Perez and Andrew Whittington 6-2, 6-4 on the Margaret Court Arena.  The two will next face the pair of Vania King and Franko Skugor in the last-16 clash.

King and Skugor reached the pre-quarters by seeing off the Australian pair of Anastasia Rodionova and J. Smith.