Mirza, Bopanna advance

Fourth seeds Mirza and her Chinese partner Shuai Peng took two hours and 13 minutes to beat Slovakian pairing of Jana Cepelova and Magdalena Rybarikova 6-7(5), 6-3, 6-3 to move into the third round of women’s doubles. The duo will now take on Romanian-Spanish combination of Sorana Cirstea and Sara Sorribes Tormo for a place in the quarterfinals. 

Meanwhile, French Open champions Bopanna and Gabriela Dabrowski of Canada beat British-Finnish pairing of Heather Watson and Henri Kontinen 6-4, 4-6, 13-11 in their opening round. They will next face American-Spanish pairing of Nicholas Monroe and María Jose Martínez Sánchez in the second round.