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July 04, 2006 10:25 IST
Last Updated: July 05, 2006 00:20 IST

Leander Paes [Images] and Martin Damm stormed into the quarter-finals of the men's doubles at Wimbledon [Images] on Monday.

The seventh seeded Indo-Czech pair had things their way while beating Cyril Suk and Robin Vik of the Czech Republic 6-2, 6-1, 7-6(7-1) in a third round match.

They meet the winners of the match between Irakli Labadze/Dusan Vemic and fourth seeds Paul Henley/Kevin Ullett.

Paes, the Indian Davis Cup spearhead, also advanced in the mixed doubles. He and Australia's [Images] Samantha Stosur beat Paul Hanley [Images] and Tatiana Perebiynis in a close second round match.

The fourth seeds prevailed over the Aussie-Ukrainian duo 4-6, 6-3, 12-10.

However, the Indian challenge in the tournament was reduced as Sania Mirza [Images] crashed out of the women's doubles.

Sania and Michaella Krajicek of the Netherlands lost to Russia's [Images] Elena Dementieva and Flavia Penetta of Italy [Images] in the second round.

Dementieva and Penetta, seeded eight, won 6-4, 6-2.

Also on the losing side was 11th seeds Mahesh Bhupathi [Images] and his Chinese partner Zi Yan, who went down to the ace American pairing of Bob Bryan and Venus Williams [Images] 6-4, 6-1 in the second round of the mixed doubles.

In the boys' singles, 14th seed Jeevan Neduncheziya lost to local lad Ed Corrie 6-0, 6-7(4/7), 6-1 while Slovakia's Andrei Martin defeated Rupesh Roy 6-2, 7-5.

In the Over-45 men's doubles, Vijay and Anand Amritraj lost to Iran's Mansour Bahrami and American Gene Mayer 6-2, 7-6(7/5).



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