Paes in mixed doubles quarters

July 07, 2006

The fourth seeded pair of Leander Paes and Samantha Stosur on Thursday breezed past the pair of Sebastian Prieto and Flavia Pennetta to move into the quarterfinals of the mixed doubles at Wimbledon.

Paes and Stosur won 6-3, 6-2 in just as hour. They now face a tougher quarterfinal challenge in Bob Bryan and Venus Williams.

Sania Mirza was not quite so lucky though, as she and partner Pavel Vizner went down in the third round to fifth seed Daniel Nestor and Elena Likhovtseva 3-6, 7-5, 2-6.

The pair did put up a bit of a fight though stretching the match to a third set. The loss brought Sania's Wimbledon campaign to an end.

Paes is now the only Indian in competition among the seniors.