Australian Open 2025: Rohan Bopanna And Zhang Shuai Enter Mixed Doubles Quarterfinal

India's Rohan Bopanna and his Chinese partner Zhang Shuai entered the quarterfinals of the mixed doubles event of the Australian Open 2025 after the Indo-Chinese pair received a walkover from their second-round opponents on Sunday (January 19).

Bopanna and Shuai were scheduled to face fourth seeds Taylor Townsend of the United States and Hugo Nys of Monaco in the second round match, but their opponents withdrew as the Indian-Chinese pair moved to the last eight round without taking the court.

Bopanna and Shuai will next play the winner of the second round match between Hungary's Timea Babos and El Salvador's Marcelo Arevalo, and, the Australian combination of Olivia Gadecki and John Peers. The quarter-final will be staged next week in Melbourne.

The Indo-Chinese pair had earlier reached the second round by seeing off the doubles pair of Kristina Mladenovic of France and Ivan Dodic of Croatia in straight sets, 6-4 6-4 in the opening round countest that was played on Friday (January 17).

Earlier, Bopanna and his new Colombian partner Nicolas Barrientos crashed out in the men's doubles event following an opening-round loss to the Spanish team of Pedro Martinez and Jaume Munar.

The 44-year-old Indian won the 2024 edition with his Australian partner Matthew Ebden. That historic victory made Bopanna, who was 43 at that time, the oldest man in the Open Era to win a Grand Slam title.

Bopanna remains the only alive in the ongoing Australian Open 2025 after N Sriram Balaji exited the men's doubles event in the second round, and the solitary singles player Sumit Nagal crashed out in the opening round.

Sriram Balaji and his Mexican partner Miguel Angel Reyes-Varela bowed out of the Australian Open men's doubles after a second-round loss to the Portuguese pair of Nuno Borges and Francisco Cabral in Melbourne on Saturday.

The closely-contested match ended with a scoreline of 6-7 (7), 6-4, 3-6 after two hours and nine minutes of intense play at Melbourne Park. Nagal, on the other hand, suffered a straight-set defeat against world number 25 Tomas Machac.