India’s Sania Mirza and her Czech partner Babora Strycova beat Samantha Stosur-Shuai Zhang on Friday to sail into the third round of the women’s doubles tournament at the Australian Open.
The Indo-Czech pair beat the Australian-Chinese team 6-1, 6-4 in the second round match that went on for one hour, 21 minutes.
Currently, World Number 2 in the women’s doubles ranking, Sania, split with long time doubles partner Martina Hingis in August last year. This is the first Australian Open for the Mirza and Strycova together.
Runners-up at last week's Apia International in Sydney, Mirza-Strycova will next play the winner of the match between the French-Polish team of Alize Cornet and Magda Linette and the Japanese pairing of Eri Hozumi and Miyu Kato.
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