<p>Sania and her partner Virginia Ruano Pascual overcame an indifferent start to reach the pre-quarterfinals of the women's doubles event.<br />The 10th seeded Indo-Spanish pair overcame a fighting Timea Bacsinszky of Switzerland and Italian Tathiana Garbin 7-6(3) 6-3 in their second round match at Melboune Park. They were trailing 1-4 in the opening set but soon found the touch and never looked back.<br /><br />They will next take on the winners of the Melinda Czink /Natalie Grandin vs Alisa Kleybanova/Francesca Schiavone second round match.<br /><br />Seasoned Paes and his Zimbabwean partner Cara Black also had a tough first round as they scored a hard earned 7-5 7-5 win over local wildcard entrants Sophie Ferguson and Carsten Ball in the mixed doubles event.<br />Their next opponent will be winners of the Andrea Hlavackova/Lukasz Kubot vs Carly Gullickson/Bernard Tomic tie.<br />Meanwhile, Somdev Devvarman and Prakash Amritraj suffered a crushing 1-6 3-6 defeat at the hands of 11th seed Swede Simon Aspelin and Australia's Paul Hanley in the men's doubles second round.<br /><br />Both Somdev and Prakash Amritraj had failed to qualify for the singles main draw.<br /><br />Bhupathi-Sania pull out of mixed doubles<br /> <br />Mahesh Bhupathi and Sania Mirza will not defend their mixed doubles title at the Australian Open due to a calf injury to the former.<br /> Bhupathi suffered the injury on Monday while practicing and aggravated it during yesterday's men's doubles first round match which he lost along with his Belarusian partner Max Mirnyi.<br /><br /> According to Bhupathi, the doctor has advised him at least 10-day rest resulting in them pulling out of the first Grand Slam of the season.<br /> With this pull out, Bhupathi's campaign is over at the Australian Open.<br /> Sania Mirza is already out of singles but her challenge is still alive in the women's doubles event.</p>
<p>Sania and her partner Virginia Ruano Pascual overcame an indifferent start to reach the pre-quarterfinals of the women's doubles event.<br />The 10th seeded Indo-Spanish pair overcame a fighting Timea Bacsinszky of Switzerland and Italian Tathiana Garbin 7-6(3) 6-3 in their second round match at Melboune Park. They were trailing 1-4 in the opening set but soon found the touch and never looked back.<br /><br />They will next take on the winners of the Melinda Czink /Natalie Grandin vs Alisa Kleybanova/Francesca Schiavone second round match.<br /><br />Seasoned Paes and his Zimbabwean partner Cara Black also had a tough first round as they scored a hard earned 7-5 7-5 win over local wildcard entrants Sophie Ferguson and Carsten Ball in the mixed doubles event.<br />Their next opponent will be winners of the Andrea Hlavackova/Lukasz Kubot vs Carly Gullickson/Bernard Tomic tie.<br />Meanwhile, Somdev Devvarman and Prakash Amritraj suffered a crushing 1-6 3-6 defeat at the hands of 11th seed Swede Simon Aspelin and Australia's Paul Hanley in the men's doubles second round.<br /><br />Both Somdev and Prakash Amritraj had failed to qualify for the singles main draw.<br /><br />Bhupathi-Sania pull out of mixed doubles<br /> <br />Mahesh Bhupathi and Sania Mirza will not defend their mixed doubles title at the Australian Open due to a calf injury to the former.<br /> Bhupathi suffered the injury on Monday while practicing and aggravated it during yesterday's men's doubles first round match which he lost along with his Belarusian partner Max Mirnyi.<br /><br /> According to Bhupathi, the doctor has advised him at least 10-day rest resulting in them pulling out of the first Grand Slam of the season.<br /> With this pull out, Bhupathi's campaign is over at the Australian Open.<br /> Sania Mirza is already out of singles but her challenge is still alive in the women's doubles event.</p>