Bhupathi-Mirnyi in third round; Paes-Rikl crash out

Mahesh Bhupathi moved into the third round of the men's doubles event of the Wimbledon while Leander Paes crashed out of Wimbledon.

Mahesh Bhupathi moved into the third round of the men's doubles event of the Wimbledon on Sunday while compatriot Leander Paes crashed out of the championship.

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Bhupathi and Max Mirnyi of Belarus won their match with a straight set 7-5 6-3 win against Dutch pair Raemon Sluiter and Martin Verkerk.

Paes and his partner David Rikl lost their second round match against Travis Parrott and Vincent Spadea of United States 6-7 (6-8) 6-3.

In the junior event, Russian Evgeniya Rodiva beat India's Tara Iyer 6-1 6-3 in the girls' singles first round.

In the boys' singles, Tushar Liberhan was to take on and Viktor Troicki of Serbia and Divij Sharan faced Chu-Huan Yi of Chinese Taipei.