London, June 30 (IANS) India’s Sania Mirza and Rohan Bopanna cruised past Czech Republic’s Martin Damm and Renata Voracova 6-3, 6-0 to enter the mixed doubles quarterfinals of the Wimbledon Championships.
The sixth seeded Indian pair will play the winner of the match between Andy Ram of Israel and Meghann Shaughnessy of the US, seeded 15th, and Paul Hanley of Australia and Su-Wei Hsieh of Chinese Taipei.
India’s Mahesh Bhupathi and Elina Vesnina of Russia are also in the quarterfinals. They beat Eric Butorac of the US and Olga Govortsova of Belarus 6-2, 7-6 (7) Wednesday.
Bhupathi’s doubles partner, Leander Paes and Cara Black of Zimbabwe will take on Nenad Zimonjic of Serbia and Katarina Srebotnik of Slovakia later Thursday in a third-round match.
Sania has also made it to the the women’s doubles semi-final with partner Vesnina.
