Rohan Bopanna

India's Rohan Bopanna and Timea Babos of Hungary entered the mixed doubles semi-finals at the Australian Open with a straight-set win over Colombian Juan Sebastian Cabal and Abigail Spears of USA here yesterday. The Indo-Hungarian pair took one hour and 15 minutes to get the better of Cabal-Spears duo 6-4, 7-6 in the quarter-final duel. It was a hard-fought encounter as Bopanna and Babos had to dig deep to squeeze out the win.