Sania-Ram pair cruises into blended doubles quarterfinals at Australian Open

India’s Sania Mirza and her American spouse Rajeev Ram complicated to the blended doubles quarterfinals of the Australian Open with a instantly set win over Ellen Perez and Matwe Middelkoop right here on Sunday.

The unseeded Indo-American duo took one hour 27 mins to dispatch Australian Perez and Dutch Middelkoop 7-6 (8/6),6-4 in the second one around conflict on Courtroom 3.

Mirza and Ram will now face the winners of every other 2d around, all Australian tie between Sam Stosur and Matthew Ebden and Jaimee Fourlis and Jason Kubler, within the quarterfinals.

Mirza and Ram had were given the simpler of Serbia’s Aleksandra Krunic and Nikola Cacic within the first around.

Previous this week, the six-time Grand Slam winner Mirza were knocked out within the first around of the ladies’s doubles match.

Mirza, who will retire after the 2022 season, is the one Indian last in fray within the season’s first Grand Slam after Rohan Bopanna and his Croatian spouse Darija Jurak Schreiber made a first-round go out from the blended doubles match on Saturday.