Live streaming, Australian Open 2023 mixed doubles final: Rohan Bopanna looks to give Sania Mirza a Grand Slam send off

Indian tennis aces Sania Mirza and Rohan Bopanna will lock horns with the all-Brazilian pair of Luisa Stefani and Rafael Matos in the Australian Open 2023 mixed doubles final at the Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne Park on Friday.

The Sania Mirza-Rohan Bopanna vs Luisa Stefani-Rafael Matos Australian Open mixed doubles final is scheduled to start at 6:30 AM Indian Standard Time (IST) on January 27 in India. Watch live streaming and telecast in India.

The match carries huge significance for Sania Mirza, who has announced her retirement from professional tennis after the Dubai WTA event next month. The 2023 Australian Open will be Sania Mirza’s final Grand Slam and Saturday’s final, her last match at the Majors.

“One more to go. It would be an absolute dream if me and Sania can win the title. It can’t get better than that. It will be special,” Rohan Bopanna said after the duo upset two-time Wimbledon champions Desirae Krawczyk and Neal Skupski in the semi-finals.

Sania Mirza is a six-time Grand Slam champion. Incidentally, the Hyderabadi star’s first Grand Slam triumph also came at the Australian Open in mixed doubles in 2009. Mirza had partnered with Mahesh Bhupathi for the tournament.

Rohan Bopanna, meanwhile, is also a former Grand Slam winner, having clinched the 2017 French Open mixed doubles title with Canadian partner Gabriela Dabrowski.

The Australian Open 2023 mixed doubles title decider will also see Indian representation at a Grand Slam final after five years. Rohan Bopanna had made the Australian Open mixed doubles final with Hungary’s Timea Babos in 2018 but lost.

Meanwhile, Sania Mirza’s last final appearance at a Grand Slam event was at the 2017 Australian Open, where she and her mixed doubles partner, Croatia’s Ivan Dodig, lost the title to Colombia’s Abigail Spears and Juan Sebastian Cabal.

Sania Mirza and Rohan Bopanna beat Australia’s Jaimee Fourlis and Luke Saville in the opening round and outplayed Japan’s Makoto Ninomiya and Uruguay’s Ariel Behar in the second. The duo got a walkover in the quarter-finals and outlasted USA’s Desirae Krawczyk and Britain’s Neal Skupski in the semis.

Luisa Stefani and Rafael Matos, however, are expected to make life difficult for the Indian pair. The Brazilians have only dropped one set en route to the final and Stefani is one-half of the women’s doubles bronze medallists from the Tokyo Olympics.

Australian Open 2023 mixed doubles final schedule and live start time for India

All times in Indian Standard Time (IST)

Friday, January 27

Sania Mirza/Rohan Bopanna vs Luisa Stefani/Rafael Matos - 6:30 AM IST

Where to watch Sania Mirza-Rohan Bopanna in the Australian Open 2023 mixed doubles final live in India

The Sania Mirza/Rohan Bopanna vs Luisa Stefani/Rafael Matos Australian Open 2023 mixed doubles final will be telecast live on the Sony TEN 3, Sony TEN 3 HD, Sony TEN 5 and Sony TEN 5 HD TV channels in India.

Live streaming of the Australian Open 2023 mixed doubles final will be available on SonyLIV.