Paes, Bopanna advance in US Open

Paes, Bopanna advance in US Open
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Paes, Bopanna advance in US Open. Indian tennis stars enjoyed a successful start in the US Open as veteran Leander Paes entered the mixed doubles second round while Rohan Bopanna also won his opening tie in the men\'s doubles competition here.

New York: Indian tennis stars enjoyed a successful start in the US Open as veteran Leander Paes entered the mixed doubles second round while Rohan Bopanna also won his opening tie in the men's doubles competition here.

World No 1 men player Novak Djokovic shakes a leg in tyopical  'Gangnam’ style with a fan while celebrating his win over Austrian Andreas Haider-Maurer in the US Open men’s singles second round in New York

Paes, alongwith Martina Hingis, eased past the local pair of Taylor Harry Fritz and C Lui 6-2, 6-2 in the first round encounter on Court 4. The fourth-seeded Indo-Swiss duo took just about 46 minutes to win the match.

Paes and Hingis will next take on the winners of the match between the Canadian-Australian combine of Eugenie Bouchard and Nick Kyrgios and the Ukrainian-Kiwi team of Elina Svitolina and Artem Sitak. On Court 14, Bopanna combined with Florin Mergea to dispatch the US duo of Austin Krajicek and Nicholas Monroe 6-3, 6-4 in the first-round encounter.

The sixth-seeded Indo-Romanian duo won the match in 1 hour and 7 minutes to ease into the second round. Bopanna and Mergea will be up against the Polish-Mexican pair of Mariusz Fyrstenberg and Santiago Gonzalez in their next match.

Fyrstenberg and Gonzalez defeated the Polish combination of Tomasz Bednarek and Jerzy Janowicz 6-7 (5) 7-6 (3) 6-4 in their opening match. World number one Serena Williams, trying to complete the first calendar Grand Slam singles sweep since Steffi Graf in 1988, defeated 110th-ranked Dutch qualifier Kiki Bertens 7-6 (7/5), 6-3 at Arthur Ashe Stadium despite 34 unforced errors and 10 double faults.

The 33-year-old American, trying to match Graf's Open Era record of 22 career Slam singles titles and win an Open Era-record seventh US Open crown, improved to 50-2 on the year and sustained her march toward history.

Spanish eighth seed Rafael Nadal, a 14-time Grand Slam champion, ousted Argentina's Diego Schwartzman 7-6 (7/5), 6-3, 7-5, while top-ranked Novak Djokovic, on a last-eight collision course with Nadal, played later against Austrian Andreas Haider-Maurer.

Next up for Williams will be fellow American Bethanie Mattek-Sands, who beat compatriot CoCo Vandeweghe 6-2, 6-1. Defending champion Marin Cilic and seventh seed David Ferrer moved nearer a round of 16 meeting.

Croatian ninth seed Cilic fired 19 aces in defeating 139th-ranked Russian qualifier Evgeny Donskoy 6-2, 6-3, 7-5. Spain's Ferrer, the 2013 French Open runner-up who missed the past 2 1/2 months with an elbow injury, downed 102nd-ranked Serb Filip Krajinovic 7-5, 7-5, 7-6 (7/4).

Australian Open semi-finalist Madison Keys ripped 100th-ranked Czech Tereza Smitkova 6-1, 6-2. The American 19th seed hopes for a fourth-round date with Serena Williams, who ousted her in Australia.

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