Indian tennis ace Sania Mirza and her Croatian partner Mate Pavic reached the Wimbledon 2022 mixed doubles quarterfinals after receiving a walkover in their Round of 16 match.
Sania and Pavic, one-half of the Tokyo 2020 men's doubles champions, were set to face Ivan Dodig and Latisha Chan in the pre-quarters. They will now take on either the Australian-Canadian pair of John Peers and Gabriela Dabrowski or Brazil's Bruno Soares and Beatriz Haddad Maia in the quarterfinals.
The Indian and her Croatian partner had beaten Spain's David Vega Hernandez and Natela Dzalamidze of Georgia 6-4, 3-6, 7-6(3) in the first round.
Elsewhere, Venus Williams and Jamie Murray's mixed doubles run at 2022 Wimbledon came to an end after losing to the all-British pairing of Alicia Barnett and Jonny O'Mara.
In a battle between two wildcard teams, the all-British pairing of Barnett and O'Mara edged former Doubles World No 1 players Williams and Murray, 3-6, 6-4, 7-6[18-16] in a two-hour and 12-minute clash on No 2 Court. The fledgling partnership had five match points in an epic deciding tie-break but ended up losing it 18-16.
Williams, 42, had not played competitively since last August but asked for a wild card to appear at the Gland Slam for the 24th year.
In other mixed doubles results from Sunday, Americans Coco Gauff and Jack Sock reached the quarterfinals with a 6-4, 7-6(3) win over No 3 seeds Zhang Shuai and Nicolas Mahut. Gauff and Sock never encountered a breakpoint in their one-hour and 15-minute victory.
And Samantha Stosur was a first-round winner, as she and her fellow Aussie Matthew Ebden defeated Ulrikke Eikeri and Joran Vliegen 4-6, 7-6(6), 6-4.