India’s Sania Mirza and Rohan Bopanna progressed with their respective partners but Leander Paes’ campaign ended after the veteran suffered a second-round defeat with Martina Hingis in mixed doubles at the US Open.
Sania and Barbora Strycova of Czech Republic advanced to the third round of the women’s doubles after a 6-2, 7-6(5) win over Viktorija Golubic and Nicole Melichar.
Sania was confirmed sole No. 1 after she teamed up with her new partner Barbora Strycova to clinch Cincinnati Open title. The 29-year-old also extended her stay at the top to 70 weeks with her 38th doubles title.
The seventh seeded pair will now meet unseeded Nicole Gibbs and Nao Hibino next.
Bopanna and his Canadian partner Gabriela Dabrowski defeated Lukasz Kubot and Andrea Hlavackova 5-7, 6-3, 10-7 to move into the quarterfinals.
Rohan Bopanna’s singles career high ranking was World No. 213 in 2007 and his career high ranking in doubles was World No. 3 on 22 July 2013.
The pair will next meet unseeded pair of Robert Farah and Anna-Lena Gr nefeld.
However, defending champions Paes and Hingis lost to American seventh seeds Coco Vandeweghe and Rajeev Ram 7-6 (1), 3-6, 13-11 after leading 8-4 in the match tiebreaker at Flushing Meadows.
The defeat marked the end of Paes’ US Open campaign after he exited the men’s doubles tournament partnering Andre Begemann on Saturday after defeat.