Switzerland's Martina Hingis (left) and her partner India's Leander Paes. (AFP)
IANS/London
India’s Leander Paes and Switzerland’s Martina Hingis entered the mixed doubles quarter-finals of Wimbledon outclassing Artem Sitak of New Zealand and Anastasia Rodionova of Australia 6-2, 6-2 yesterday.
The experienced seventh seeded pair needed just 48 minutes to outclass the Sitak-Rodionova team in straight sets and book a place in the quarter-finals of the grass court tournament.
The Indo-Swiss pair next faces the winner of the match between Marcin Matkowski-Elena Vesnina and Lukasz Kubot-Andrea Hlavackova to book a place in the semi-finals.
On Monday, Indian tennis stars Rohan Bopanna and Sania Mirza entered the men’s and women’s doubles quarter-finals, Paes was knocked out in the men’s doubles.
Bopanna with his Romanian partner Florin Mergea earned a hard fought victory against the Polish-Belarusian pair of Lukasz Kubot and Max Mirnyi 7-6(4), 6-7(5), 7-6(5), 7-6 (8) after an epic battle that stretched for three hours and 20 minutes.
Sania with her Swiss partner Martina Hingis needed only an hour and seven minutes to win 6-4, 6-3 in a third round tie against Spanish 16th seeds Anabel Medina Garrigues and Arantxa Parra Santonja.
Paes partnering Canada’s Daniel Nestor lost to Brazilian Bruno Soares and Austrian Alexander Peya 3-6, 5-7, 6-3, 6-2, 2-6 in a battle which lasted two hours and 42 minutes
