Australian Open: Rohan Bopanna-Timea Babos advance into pre-quarters of mixed doubles

Indian tennis ace Rohan Bopanna and his Hungarian partner Timea Babos marched into the mixed doubles pre-quarter finals of the Australian Open with a straight sets victory in their last-32 clash on Sunday.

The Indo-Hungarian pair brushed aside the duo of Ellen Perez and Andrew Whittington 6-2, 6-4 on the Margaret Court Arena.

The two will next face the pair of Vania King and Franko Skugor in the last 16 clash.

King and Skugor had already reached the pre-quarters by seeing off the Australian pair of Anastasia Rodionova and J. Smith.

Earlier, veteran Indian doubles legend Leander Paes and Purav Raja crashed out of the Australian Open after losing to Juan Cabal and Robert Farah in Men's Double third round on January 21 at Court 8.

The Indian pair lost to the 11th seeded Colombian duo 1-6, 2-6, in an hour-and-nine-minute-long match.