Veteran Indian tennis player Rohan Bopanna and his Chinese partner Zhang Shuai advanced to the quarterfinals of the mixed doubles event at the Australian Open with a walkover in the second round on Sunday.
Bopanna and Shuai were scheduled to face fourth seeds Taylor Townsend of the United States and Hugo Nys of Monaco, but they received a bye to the next round without even stepping on the court.
Next, Bopanna and Shuai will take on the winner of the match between Hungary’s Timea Babos and El Salvador’s Marcelo Arevalo, as well as the Australian duo of Olivia Gadecki and John Peers.
In their opening match, the Indo-Chinese pair defeated Kristina Mladenovic of France and Ivan Dodic of Croatia with a score of 6-4, 6-4.
