Bhupathi, Bopanna and Sania advance

Indian players enjoyed a fine outingat the Wimbledon with Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna winning their respective men’s doubles matches to progress into the third round.

Indian players enjoyed a fine outing at the Wimbledon with Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna winning their respective men’s doubles matches to progress into the third round in Lond

on on Saturday.

Eight seeded Indo-Austrian pair of Bhupathi and Julian Knowle came from a set down to get the better off Nicholas Monroe of the US and German Simon Stadler 3-6 6-4 6-4 6-2 in a tough battle that lasted for two hours and 22 minutes.

They will now take on the Canadian pair of Jesse Levine and Vasek Pospisil.

Bopanna and his French-partner Edouard Roger-Vasselin had to fight hard before prevailing over Daniel Brands and Lukas Rosol in a gruelling five setter of three-hour duration.

Bopanna and Roger-Vasselin pipped the German-Czech combination by 6-3 5-7 7-6 (7-4) 6-7 (8-10) 6-4 in a second round encounter to set up a clash against the third seed pair of Austria's Alexander Peya and Bruno Soares from Brazil.

In more good news for India, the sixth seed Indo-US pair of Sania Mirza and Liezel Huber defeated the Italian-German pair of Flavia Pennetta and Andrea Petkovic 7-6, 3-6, 6-2 to advance to the third round of the women’s doubles.

They now face the Japanese-South African duo of Shuko Aoyama and Chanelle Scheepers in the third round.

Mirza-Huber took the opening set via a tough tiebreaker. Pennetta and Petkovic, however, bounced back to square the match at a set apiece. The Indo-US duo held their nerve to take the decider 6-2.