AusOpen: Leander Paes-Martina Hingis storm into mixed doubles quarterfinal

The Indo-Swiss pair of Leander Paes and Martina Hingis has reached the Australian Open 2017 mixed doubles quarterfinals after defeating Casey Dellacqua and Matt Reid 6-2, 6-3 on Monday.

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Paes-Hingis took the early lead by saving a break point on Hingis' serve in the first set, reports ESPN.com. Continuing with their superb serve, Paes-Hingis butchered their opponents with six aces.

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It took them only 54 minutes to take down the Aussie pair of Dellacqua-Reid who committed 13 unforced errors through the match.

The wildcards Paes-Hingis secured a break in the eighth game of the second set and the Aussie wildcards lost the match right after that.

The unseeded Indo-Swiss pair swept aside the Australian duo of Destanee Aiava and Marc Polmans 6-4, 6-3 in the opening-round contest that lasted for 51 minutes.

On Saturday, Bopanna and his Canadian partner Gabriela Dabrowski had to dig deep to beat Michael Venus and Katarina Srebotnik 6-4 6-7, 10-7 in a super tie-breaker.
A little later, the second seeded pairing of Mirza and Croatia's Ivan Dodig got the better of reigning US Open defending champions, Laura Siegemund and Mate Pavic, in another first round match. The final scoreline read 7-5, 6-4.

(With PTI Inputs)