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Paes in mixed doubles quarters

July 06, 2006 20:40 IST

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

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

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

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

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

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 [ Images ] 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.