PARIS:
Sania Mirza stormed into the quarterfinals of mixed doubles event as she and her partner
Ivan Dodig
of Croatia notched up a commanding win over their opponents at the
French Open on Sunday.
The Sania-Dodig pair beat the duo of
Elina Svitolina
(Ukraine) and
Artem Sitak
(New Zealand) 6-2, 6-4 in a second round match to book a last-eight spot.
However,
Rohan Bopanna, partnering with
Pablo Cuevas
of Uruguay, crashed out of the men's doubles event after losing to
Jamie Murray
(Great Britain) and Bruno Soares (Brazil) 6-7 2-6 in a third round match.
The Indian men's doubles duo of Purav Raja and Divij Sharan also lost their third round match to the pair of Ryan Harrison (USA) and Michael Venus (New Zealand) 6-4 6-7 2-6.
Meanwhile, Zeel Desai lost her girls' singles opening round match to Daniela Vismane of Latvia 0-6 2-6.
In boys' singles also, Abhimanyu Vannemreddy lost his opening round match against Clement Tabur of France 0-6 1-6.