Paes, Bhupathi advance in mixed doubles

29 June,2011 09:09 AM IST |   |  IANS

India's Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi advanced to the Wimbledon mixed doubles third round with their respective partners


India's Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi advanced to the Wimbledon mixed doubles third round with their respective partners.

Bhupathi and Elena Vesnina of Russia, seeded fourth, defeated Australian Stephen Huss and Anastasia Rodionova 6-2, 7-6(3) on Monday. They will next meet unseeded Eric Butorac of USA and Olga Govortsova of Belarus.

Paes and Cara Black of Zimbabwe, seeded 14th, defeated Rogier Wassen of the Netherlands and Alicja Rosolska of Poland 6-1, 6-4.

Som exits doubles
Another Indian, Somdev Devvarman, and Kei Nishikori of Japan lost 3-6, 4-6, 6-7(5) to sixth seed Michael Llodra of France and Nenad Zimonjic of Serbia.

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Leander Paes Mahesh Bhupathi Mixed doubles Wimbledon