Pakistan’s Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi and mixed doubles partner Yaroslava Shvedova of Kazakhstan marched into the Australian Open second round after a convincing 6-4, 7-6 win over local pair of Luke Saville and Daria Gavrilova on Saturday.
Aisam, who along with partner Jonathan Marray of Britain had crashed out of the men’s doubles event in the first round on Thursday, had a better day at the office with Shvedoa as the pair used all their experience to defeat their much younger opponents in 77 minutes.
The Pakistani-Kazakh pair won 73% of their first serve points and at times proved physically stronger than Saville and Gavrilova.
Aisam and Shvedova will now take on the pair of Sania Mirza of India and Crotia’s Ivan Dodig in the second round.
