Melbourne: Sania Mirza India and American partners Rajeev RAM advanced to the quarter-finals of the mixed Australian Open double with a direct victory over Ellen Perez and Matwe Middelkoop here on Sunday.
Unspotable Indo-American duo takes one hour 27 minutes to send Perez Australia and Dutch Middelkoop 7-6 (8/6), 6-4 in the second round clash in court 3.
Mirza and RAM will now face other people’s winners round Second, all Australian bonds between Sam Stosur and Matthew Ebden and Jaeam Fourlis and Jason Kuber, in the quarter-finals.
Mirza and RAM have gotten better than Serbia from Aleksandra Krunic and Nikola Cacic in the first round.
Earlier this week, the Grand Slam winner six times Mirza had been eliminated in the first round of women’s doubles.
Mirza, who will retire after the 2022 season, is the only Indian remaining in the commotion in the first Grand Slam this season after Rohan Bopanna and his Croatian partner from Jurak Schreiber made the first exit of a mixed doubles event on Saturday.