New Zealand Open: Rohan Kapoor-Kuhoo Garg enter 2nd round of mixed doubles

Young Indian mixed doubles shuttlers Rohan Kapoor and Kuhoo Garg and the pair of Shivam Sharma and S Ram Poorvisha entered the second round of the New Zealand Open Super 100 tournament at Auckland yesterday. 

Rohan and Kuhoo, defeated Israel's Misha Zilberman and Ksenia Polikarpova 11-21, 21-7, 21-10 in a 42-minute



match. Shivam Sharma and S Ram Poorvisha beat the Australian pair of Niccolo Tagle and Fransisca Angelica Rahardja 21-19, 21-11 in another match.

Other Indian shuttlers Ajay Jayaram, Sourabh Verma, B Sai Praneeth and Sameer Verma will begin their campaign today.