Busan: New faces of Indian tennis, Rohan Bopanna and Sunil Kumar Sipaeya, moved into the third round of the men's singles competition in the Asian Games at the Geunjeong stadium on Monday.

Both the players, who got a bye in the first round, registered easy straight set victories in the second round, with Sunil Kumar beating Sri Lanka's Amrit Rupasinghe 6-1 6-2 and Bopanna blasting Matias de Sousa of East Timor 6-2, 6-0.

In the women's section, Niruapama Vaidyanathan ousted Natsagsuren Jigjidsuren of Mongolia 6-0, 6-0 and Sania Mirza defeated Yulio Kitmchenko of Kyrgyzstan 6-0, 6-1 to move into the second round.

PTI