Sania Mirza and her American partner Bethanie Mattek-Sands entered the women’s doubles third round with a straight set win on a mixed day for the Indians in the U.S. Open here.
The 13th seeded combination of Sania and Bethanie got the better of Croatian Darija Jurak and Hungary’s Katalin Marosi 6-4, 6-2.
The Indo-American pair now has a tough match on hand as it will take on second seeded Italians Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci.
Sara and Roberta outplayed American Jill Craybas and South African Chanelle Scheepers in their second round match.
Another Indian who enjoyed a winning day at the event was Leander Paes. The veteran and his Russian partner Elena Vesnina, who are seeded third, defeated the American-Filipino combine of Raquel Kops-Jones and Treat Conrad Huey 6-4, 7-5.
They will face another unseeded pair in Abigail Americans Spears and Scott Lipsky, who eased past the Czech-Austrian pair of Iveta Benesova and Jurgen Melzer 6-4, 6-3.
But there was disappointment for Rohan Bopanna, who, along with his Chinese partner Jie Zheng, bowed out of the mixed doubles event after losing 2-6, 5-7 to the Australian-Dutch duo of Anastasia Rodionova and Jean-Julien Rojer.
