Mahesh Bhupati to partner Martina Hingis at the US Open 2013

Switzerland’s Martina Hingis (L) and India’s Mahesh Bhupathi

Mixed doubles draws for US Open 2013 are now officially out.

Mahesh Bhupathi, who is playing his last Grand Slam before his retirement will team up with Swiss legend Martina Hingis, who is playing the first grand slam after her comeback.

The unseeded Indo- Swiss pair, who won the Australian Open 2006 together, will start their campaign against the pair of Jan Chan Yung (TPE) and Robert Lindstedt (SWE). If they win the first round match, then they could face the 7th seeded pair of Andrea Hlavackova (CZE) and Max Mirnyi (BLR) in the next round.

Rohan Bopanna will partner Julia Goerges of Germany and the Indo-German pair are seeded 3rd in the tournament. They will take on the unseeded pair of Abigail Spears (USA) and Santiago Gonzalez (MEX) in the opening round.

Sania Mirza  is pairing with Horia Tecau of Romania. The unseeded Indo-Romanian pair will face the  8th seeded pair of Liezel Huber (USA) and Marcelo Melo (BRA) in first round. Sania Mirza and Horia Tecau have already paired up in this year’s Wimbledon where they lost in the Quarterfinals.

German-Austrian pair of Anna Lena Groenefeld and Alexander Peya will be the top seeded pair in the tournament whereas Katarina Srebotnik (SLO) and Nenad Zimonjic (SRB) will be the 2nd seeded pair.

Unfortunately, Indian tennis legend Leander Paes  is not playing in the Mixed doubles event but he is playing in the men’s doubles event of the tournament.

Paes, who recently won the Winston-Salem Open Tournament, will partner  Radek Stapanek of Czech Republic and this Indo-Czech pair will take on the pair of Dmitry Tursnov and Jarkko Nimenin in the opening round.