Internet Desk: Veteran Indian tennis star Leander Paes and his Swiss partner Martina Hingis have failed to reach the semifinals of the Australian Open as they suffered a straight-set defeat in the quarter-finals on Thursday.
Local favourites Sam Groth and Samantha Stosur didn’t give any chance to Paes and Hingis, as they won the match by 6-3, 6-2 in mere 55 minutes.
The Australian duo dominated the match and broke serve of the Indo-Swiss combination in the fifth game to nose ahead before sealing the first set 6-3 with another service break.
In the second set, Paes and Hingis were broken in the fourth game to trail 1-3. The Indo-Swiss pair were 2-5 down when Hingis served only to be broken by the Australians, who sealed the match comfortably.
In the semifinals, Groth and Stosur will meet the second seeded combo of India’s Sania Mirza and Ivan Dodig of Croatia.
In junior girls’ singles, Zeel Desai was beaten by Elena Rybakina of Russia 4-6, 3-6 in the quarter-finals.
With inputs from PTI.