Murray & Mattek-Sands through in mixed doubles
| Australian Open 2019 |
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| Venue: Melbourne ParkDates:14-27 January |
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Jamie Murray and American Bethanie Mattek-Sands beat Romanian Mihaela Buzarnescu and Austrian Oliver Marach in the Australian Open mixed doubles.
The US Open champions will face France’s Kristina Mladenovic and Swede Robert Lindstedt in the second round after the fourth seeds retired at 4-1.
Mladenovic and Lindstedt beat Briton Dominic Inglot and Sweden’s Johanna Larsson 6-2 6-2 in the first round.
Briton Neal Skupski and Spain’s Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez also progressed.
The pair beat Slovenian Katarina Srebotnik and Croatian Franko Skugor 6-3 6-3.
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