India's Leander Paes and Switzerland's Martina Hingis beat Marcin Matkowski of Poland and Elena Vesnina of Russia in the mixed doubles quarter-finals at Wimbledon on Thursday, while the Indo-Brazilian pair of Sania Mirza and Bruno Soares lost to Alexander Peya of Austria and Timea Babos of Hungary to mark a day of mixed fortunes for Indian players at The Championships.
Paes and Hingis completely thrashed their opponents to enter the semi-finals. It was a thorough performance from the seventh seeds, who needed just 44 minutes to drub third seeds Matkowski and Vesnina 6-2, 6-1 on Court 1.
Paes and Hingis won all four break point opportunities that they had and also clinched 49 of the 76 points played in the match, showing the one-sidedness of the quarter-final contest.
Next up, they will take on formidable American top seeds Mike Bryan and Bethanie Mattek-Sands for a place in the final.
Fifth seeds Peya and Babos defeated second seeds Mirza and Soares 3-6, 7-6(6), 9-7 in two hours and 21 minutes. Mirza and Soares lost the match despite having two match points at one stage.
In other results, Indian-Vietnamese eighth seeds Sumit Nagal and Nam Hoang Ly defeated local pair Jonathan Gray and Ewan Moore 3-6, 6-4, 6-4 in one hour and 37 minutes to progress to the boys' doubles quarterfinals. They will next take on the Japanese duo of of Jumpei Yamasaki and Yusuke Takahashi.
{{/usCountry}}In other results, Indian-Vietnamese eighth seeds Sumit Nagal and Nam Hoang Ly defeated local pair Jonathan Gray and Ewan Moore 3-6, 6-4, 6-4 in one hour and 37 minutes to progress to the boys' doubles quarterfinals. They will next take on the Japanese duo of of Jumpei Yamasaki and Yusuke Takahashi.
{{/usCountry}}In the first round of girls' doubles, Colombian-Indonesian pair of Maria Fernanda Herazo Gonzalez and Deria Nur Haliza defeated the Indo-Japanese team of Pranjala Yadlapalli and Chihiro Muramatsu 6-3, 6-2 in just over an hour on Court 14.