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Collin Matiza Sports Editor
ACE Zimbabwean female tennis player Cara Black and her Indian partner Sania Mirza have a date against the unseeded pair of Canadian teen Eugenie Bouchard and Russia’s Vera Dushevina in the third round of the Australian Open in Mel-bourne. Black remained on course for her second Australian Open women’s doubles title when she reached the third round on Saturday.
According to reports from Melbourne, Black, an Australian Open women’s doubles champion with American Liezel Huber in 2007, and Mirza, who are seeded sixth in Melbourne, strolled to victory in their women’s doubles second-round match following a 7-5, 6-1 win over Monica Niculescu from Romania and her Czech partner Klara Zakopalova.
Up next for Black and Mirza is Bouchard and Dushevina who upset 11th seeds Anna-Lena Groenefeld of Germany and Croatian Mirjana Lucic-Baroni 6-4, 7-5 in the other second round match on Satur- day.
Black is out of contention in the mixed doubles competition at the Australian Open after she fell in the first round with her British partner Jamie Murray on Saturday.
Black and Murray, who were unseeded in the mixed doubles, fell at the first hurdle after they lost in straight sets to fifth seeds Anna Medina Garrigues of Spain and Brazil’s Bruno Soares who beat them 6-2, 6-4.
The defeat denied Black the chance of winning her second mixed doubles title at the Australian Open after having won it for the first time with India’s Leander Paes in 2010.
That victory in 2010 marked Black’s first mixed doubles victory at the Australian Open. The victory also completed a career Grand Slam in mixed doubles for her.
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