India star Sania Mirza, competing in her last grand slam, cruised into the second round of the Australian Open here on Thursday.

Sania and her Kazakh partner Anna Danilina prevailed over Hungary’s Dalma Galfi and American Bernarda Pera 6-2, 7-5 in one hour and 15 minutes in the women’s doubles.

Wrapping up the first set in less than 25 minutes, the pair led 4-1 in the second when they were made to work a bit as Galfi and Pera won four games on the trot to make it five-all.

However, the Indo-Kazakh duo managed to break Pera’s serve and then Danilina held on to hers to seal the issue and set up a second round clash against Alison Van Uytvanck and Anhelina Kalinina.

In men’s doubles, Ramkumar Ramanathan and the duo of Yuki Bhambri and Saketh Myneni made first round exits after losing their respective matches.

Ramkumar and his Mexican partner Miguel Angel Reyes-Varela went down 6-3,5-7, 3-6 to the Tsitsipas brothers — Stefanos and Petros.

Wildcard entrants Bhambri and Myneni went down 6-7,7-6, 6-3 to the Australian-German pair of Andreas Mies and John Peers in a two-hour45-minute battle.