Soderling eases into third round

Swedish sixth seed Robin Soderling advanced to the third round at Wimbledon with a 7-5, 6-1, 6-4 win over Spain’s Marcel Granollers on Thursday.

Swedish sixth seed Robin Soderling advanced to the third round at Wimbledon with a 7-5, 6-1, 6-4 win over Spain’s Marcel Granollers on Thursday. Soderling was never seriously threatened by Granollers and the Swede will play Brazilian 25th seed Thomaz Bellucci in the next round.

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Sixteenth seed Sharapova also advanced to the third round with a 6-1, 6-4 win over Romania’s Ioana Raluca Olaru.

Bhupathi-Mirnyi in 2nd round

Mahesh Bhupathi and his partner Max Mirnyi sailed into the second round of the men’s doubles event with a 7-5, 6-1, 7-5 victory over Argentine duo of Maximo Gonzalez and Sebastian Prieto. The fourth-seeded Indo-Belarus pair now meet the British duo of Jamie Delgado and Joshua Goodall.

Sania, Paes win opening doubles

Sania Mirza was off to a winning start in women’s doubles event as the Indian and her Dane partner Caroline Wozniacki notched up a 6-4, 6-1 victory over local favourites Anne Keothavong and Melanie South to enter the second round. Meanwhile, third seeds Paes and Dlouhy shrugged off a one-set deficit to beat South African Rik De Voest and German Mischa Zverev 6-7 (4) 6-4 6-3 in a hard-fought contest.

Men’s singles: A Murray (GBR) bt J Nieminen (FIN) 6-3, 6-4, 6-2; Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (FRA) bt A Dolgopolov (UKR) 6-4, 6-4, 6-7 (5/7), 5-7, 10-8; R Soderling (SWE) bt M Granollers (ESP) 7-5, 6-1, 6-4.

Women’s singles: F Pennetta (ITA) bt M Niculescu (ROU) 6-1, 6-1; M Sharapova (RUS) bt I.R. Olaru (ROU) 6-1, 6-4; C Wozniacki (DEN) bt C Kai-Chen (TPE) 6-4, 6-3.