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Sania, Bopanna progress; Paes exits at Wimbledon
The 28-year-old Indian, however, broke into a rare smile, when she cracked a forehand down-the-line winner in the second game that broke their opponent's serve and set the tone for the third round clash, which was more about nerve than serve.
Cheered on by Bollywood star Farhan Akhtar, the top-seeds in the Wimbledon women's doubles Sania and Martina - beat the 16th seeds Spain's Anabel Medina Garrigues and Arantxa Parra Santoja 6-4, 6-3 to advance into the quarterfinals.
In the last eight the Indo-Swiss pairing take on ninth seeds Kazakh Yaroslava Shvedova and Aussie Cassey Dellacqua.
Bollywood hottie Anushka Sharma and her cricketer boyfriend Virat Kohli were also cheering the Indians in action on the busiest Monday in tennis, when tickets sell quicker than bowls of chilled strawberries and cream in boutique stalls.
The World No.1 pairing, who have lost just five games in their first two matches, broke early to move ahead, but Hingis' serve came under fire from opponents who were unafraid to go for their shots. The top-seeded duo pulled through the opening set, but fell into a similar pattern in the second, with the Spaniards levelling scores at 3-3.Sania and Martina then stepped up the pace and raced away with the next three games and the match.
The ninth-seeds in the men's doubles - India's Rohan Bopanna and Romania's Florin Mergea - put out Belarus's Max Mirnyi and Poland's Lukasz Kubot 7-6 (7-4), 6-7 (5-7), 7-6 (75), 7-6 (10-8) in 3 hours and 20 minutes.
Meanwhile, 11th seeds India's Leander Paes and Canada's Daniel Nestor, both 42 years of age, fell to the eighth-seeded duo of Alexander Peya and Bruno Soares in a five set marathon 36, 5-7, 6-3, 6-2, 2-6.
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