Sania Mirza and Rohan Bopanna progressed to the combined doubles semifinals on the Australian Open on Tuesday after the Latvian-Spanish duo of Jelena Ostapenko and David Vega Hernandez, the Indian pair’s opponents within the last-eight fixture, gave a walkover.
Earlier within the day, Ostapenko had misplaced her singles quarterfinal 2-6, 4-6 to reigning Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan.
Sania and Rohan had begun their marketing campaign with a 7-5, 6-3 victory over native wildcards Jaimee Fourlis and John Peers earlier than beating Uruguay’s Ariel Behar and Japan’s Makoto Ninomiya, 6-4, 7-6 (9) within the pre-quarterfinals on Monday.
Sania’s run in girls’s doubles together with Kazakhstan’s Anna Danilina ended within the second spherical.
The 36-year-old Sania, who is about to retire from the game after subsequent month’s Dubai Masters, gained the combined doubles crown in Melbourne with compatriot Mahesh Bhupathi in 2009. She additional went on to win 5 extra Grand Slams, two of which got here in combined doubles.
With Rohan, she has beforehand performed combined doubles as soon as at French Open (2011) and twice at Wimbledon (2011, 2021) with the pair’s finest consequence collectively being a quarterfinal-finish on the All England Club in 2011. They did, nevertheless, end fourth on the 2016 Rio Olympics.