PAES-RAJA POST VICTORY

It turned out to be a mixed day for India at the US Open, after Leander Paes and his new partner Purav Raja advanced to the second round of men’s doubles while Rohan Bopanna and Sania Mirza lost their respective events at Flushing Meadows. Veteran Paes and Raja thrashed Serbia’s Janko Tipsarevic and Viktor Troicki 6-1, 6-3 to sail into the second round. Paes and Raja next face the Russian combo of Karen Khachanov and Andrey Rublev. Meanwhile, the 10th seeded combine of Bopanna and Uruguay’s Pablo Cuevas, squandered a one-set advantage to go down to the former Australian Open winners Fabio Fognini and Simone Bolelli, 5-7, 6-4, 6-4 in an hour and 47 minutes in the men’s doubles second round match.

Arampaging India will fancy their chances of completing a 5-0 whitewash of Sri Lanka when they face the beleaguered hosts in the fifth and final One-day International match on Sunday.

The visitors already swept the Test series 3-0, and given their dominant run on this trip, would like to sweep the ODI series as well.

Sri Lanka are in danger of losing a second successive ODI series to India by a 5-0 margin. The last time these two sides played a bilateral series in November 2014, a depleted Lankan side lost 5-0 in India.

Their fortunes haven›t changed much since and another loss would be a serious body blow for the hosts in what has been a trau-