Indian players enjoyed a fine outing at the Wimbledon with the seasoned trio of leander Paes, Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna winning their respective men’s doubles matches to progress into the third round, here on Saturday.
Paes and his Czech partner Radek Stepanek sailed past Britain’s Jamie Delgado and Australia’s Matthew Ebden in straight sets 6-4, 6-4, 6-3. Indo-Austrian pair of Bhupathi and Julian Knowles got the better off Nicholas Monroe of the US and German Simon Stadler 3-6, 6-4, 6-4, 6-2. 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 6-3, 5-7, 7-6 (7-4), 6-7 (8-10), 6-4.