MELBOURNE — Veteran Indian tennis player Rohan Bopanna and his Chinese parnter
Zhang Shuai entered the quarterfinals of the mixed doubles event at the
Australian Open after they got a walkover in a second round match here on
Sunday.
Bopanna and Shuai were up against fourth seeds Taylor
Townsend of the United States and Hugo Nys of Monaco but the Indian-Chinese
pair moved to the last eight round without taking the court.
Bopanna and Shuai will next play the winner of the match
between Hungary's Timea Babos and El Salvador's Marcelo Arevalo, and, the
Australian combination of Olivia Gadecki and John Peers.
The Indo-Chinese pair had earlier defeated Kristina
Mladenovic of France and Ivan Dodic of Croatia 6-4 6-4 in its opening match.
