Veteran Indian tennis participant Rohan Bopanna and his Chinese language accomplice Zhang Shuai entered the quarterfinals of the blended doubles occasion on the Australian Open after they obtained a walkover in a second-round match right here on Sunday.
Bopanna and Shuai had been up in opposition to fourth seeds Taylor Townsend of america and Hugo Nys of Monaco however the Indian-Chinese language pair moved to the final eight spherical with out taking the court docket.
Bopanna and Shuai will subsequent play the winner of the match between Hungary’s Timea Babos and El Salvador’s Marcelo Arevalo, and, the Australian mixture of Olivia Gadecki and John Friends.
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The Indo-Chinese language pair had earlier defeated Kristina Mladenovic of France and Ivan Dodic of Croatia 6-4 6-4 in its opening match.
Earlier, Bopanna and his new Colombian accomplice Nicolas Barrientos bowed out of the boys’s doubles occasion with an opening-round loss to the Spanish crew of Pedro Martinez and Jaume Munar.
The 44-year-old Indian received the 2024 version along with his Australian accomplice Matthew Ebden. That historic victory made Bopanna, who was 43 at the moment, the oldest man within the Open Period to win a Grand Slam title.