Paris: Indian tennis player Sania Mirza and partner Cara Black of Zimbabwe progressed to the second round of the French Open women’s doubles at Roland Garros here on Thursday.
The fifth seeds needed only an hour and nine minutes to beat Slovak-Israeli pair Daniela Hantuchova and Shahar Peer 6-3, 6-3 on Court No 11.
Service games were broken regularly by both combinations throughout the match, but Mirza and Black made sure they broke their opponents more often, ensuring a straight sets win.
They will next take on the Canadian-Polish pairing of Gabriela Dabrowski and Alicja Rosolska.
Meanwhile, Israeli-Brazilian pairing Jonathan Erlich and Marcelo Melo accounted for the ‘Indo-Pak Express’ — Rohan Bopanna and Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi — in the second round of the men’s doubles. The sixth seeds lost their 65-minute match 3-6, 4-6 on Court No 16.
