Australian Open: Sania Mirza-Rohan Bopanna enter mixed doubles final
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khaskhabar.com : Thursday, 26 January 2023 11:38 AM
Melbourne | Indian tennis players Sania Mirza and Rohan Bopanna on Tuesday defeated third seeded American-British pair Desirea Krawczyk and Neil Skupski in the semi-finals to reach the final of the Australian Open 2023 mixed doubles event. Sania and Bopanna defeated two-time Wimbledon champion pair Desira-Skupski 7-6(5), 6-7(5), 10-6 in a hard-fought match.
The Indian pair will take on the winner of the match between Australia’s Olivia Gadecki and Mark Polmans and Brazilian pair of Luisa Stefani and Rafael Matos.
This will be the first time in five years that India will be represented in a Grand Slam final. Bopanna had made it to the Australian Open mixed doubles final in 2018 with Hungary’s Timea Babos, but lost.
Sania, who is playing her last major event as a six-time Grand Slam champion, had announced earlier this month that she would retire from professional tennis at the Dubai Tennis Championships, which is a WTA 1000 event and begins on February 19. Happening.
She has six major doubles titles – three in women’s doubles and the same number in mixed doubles – with her first win coming in 2009, when she partnered Mahesh Bhupathi to win the Australian Open mixed doubles title.
(IANS)
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