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Paes in mixed doubles quarters

July 06, 2006 20:40 IST

Leander Peas and Samantha Stosur of Australia stormed into the quarter-finals of the mixed doubles at Wimbledon on Friday.

The fourth seeds beat Argentina's Sebastian Prieto and Flavia Pennetta of Italy 6-3, 6-2 in a third round match.

They will take on the United States' Bob Bryan and Venus Williams next.

Bryan and Williams got the better of sixth seeds Todd Perry and Rennae Stubbs of Australia 7-4 (7-4), 6-3.

In another third round match, India's Sania Mirza and Pavel Vizner of the Czech Republic were shown the door by fifth seeds Daniel Nestor of Canada and Elena Likhovtseva of Russia.

The Indo-Czech pair lost 3-6, 7-5, 2-6.

Rupesh Roy- Haan Lee advance

Rupesh Roy and Hsin Haan Lee of Chinese Taipei registered a 6-7 (2), 6-3, 6-4 victory over Edgar Rodriguez of Columbia and Jose-Roberto Velasco of Bolivia in boy's doubles second round, even as Delhi's Sanaa Bhambri and Wing Yau Venise Chan of Hong Kong were tamed by top seeded pair of Kristina Antoniychuk of Ukraine and Alexandra Dulgheru of Romania in a girls' doubles match.

Sanaa and Wing lost to the Ukrainian-Romanian duo 3-6, 4-6.

Sanaa had lost to second seed Yung-Jan Chan of Chinese Taipei in the singles event.

Sanam Singh's challenge came to an end in the boys' singles after he went down 2-6, 3-6 to Arthur Chernov of Russia in a third round match on Wednesday.

Old warhorses Vijay and Anand Amritraj defeated Brian Gottfried of the United States and Raul Ramirez of Mexico 6-3, 6-4 in Group C of the 45-and-over doubles event after losing their opening match.

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