Sania, Paes in mixed doubles quarters
India’s tennis stars Sania Mirza and Leander Paes advanced to the quarter-finals of the US Open mixed doubles here last night. Sania and her Brit partner Colin Fleming won their mixed doubles third-round match against Americans Melanie Oudin and Jack Sock 6-4, 7-6 (7) to enter the last eight, where they will face the fourth-seeded Czech-Polish pair of Kveta Peschke and Marcin Matkowski.
Sania Mirza
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Paes, who earlier advanced to the men’s double quarters with Czech Radek Stepanek, won his mixed doubles third round match partnering Russian Elena Vesnina beating Americans Abigail Spears and Scott Lipsky 4-6, 6-4, 1-0 (5). Third seeds Paes-Vesnina next meet seventh-seeded Czechs Lucie Hradecka and Frantisek Cermak.
Leander Paes
Mahesh Bhupathi’s mixed doubles campaign with Czech partner Andrea Hlavackova came to an end as they gave a walkover to Spaniards Nuria Llagostera Vives and David Marrero in Round Three.
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