Sania-Cara in third round of French Open

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IANS Paris
Last Updated : May 31 2014 | 7:45 PM IST

India's Sania Mirza and her Zimbabwean partner Cara Black cruised into the women's doubles third round of French Open tennis here Saturday.

The fifth-seeded Indo-Zimbabwean pair won 6-1, 6-2 against Gabriela Dabrowski of Canada and Alicja Rosolska of Poland.

Sania and Cara completely dominated the match and won two break points in the first set. In all they won 57 points while Gabriela and Alicja won 37 points.

Sania and Cara will now face Serbia's Jelena Jankovic and Russian Alisa Kleybanova, who got a walkover from Sharon Fichman and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova.

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First Published: May 31 2014 | 7:32 PM IST

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