MELBOURNE: Pakistani Tennis Star Aisam ul Haq Qureshi will now take Indian Tennis star and wife of Pakistani cricketer Shoaib Malik, Sania Mirza in the second round of mixed doubles in ongoing Australian Open.
Pakistan’s Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi and mixed doubles partner Yaroslava Shvedova of Kazakhstan marched into the Australian Open second round after a convincing 6-4, 7-6 win over local pair of Luke Saville and Daria Gavrilova on Saturday.
Aisam, who along with partner Jonathan Marray of Britain had crashed out of the men’s doubles event in the first round on Thursday, had a better day at the office with Shvedoa as the pair used all their experience to defeat their much younger opponents in 77 minutes.
Whereas, Sania Mirza with her Croatian partner Ivan Dodig claimed the Round 1 match for the mixed doubles category against Australian pair Ajla Tomljanovic and Nick Kyrgios by 7-5 and 6-1.
35-year-old Pakistan tennis star is making sixth consecutive appearance in Australian open after playing for the first time in 2011, his best performance in mixed doubles is 3rd Round.
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