Wimbledon tennis championship: Mixed doubles: Win for Sania-Paes!!

tennis1The mixed doubles team from India, where Leander Paes & Sania Mirza are participating with their partners,  won the ir matches in the Wimbledon championship.

Wimbledon championships, one of the 4 grand-slam championships in the world of tennis, are progress currently in London.

In the mixed-doubles match played day-before-yesterday (Saturday, 4thJuly), The team of India’s Sania Mirza & Brazil’s Bruno Sorus defeated the team of Janetta Husarova (Czech) & Andre Pegian (Germany) in straight sets , 6-2, 6-4.

In another mixed-doubles match, India’s senior player Leander Paes and Martin Hingis (from Switzerland) defeated the pair of Roger Vaselin & Alice Garnett (France) and qualified for pre-quarter final (3rd round).

However, another mixed doubles team, India’s Rohan Bopanna & Martines Sachez (Spain) lost their match. Horia Dekov (Rumania) & Catherina Sripotnik (Slovenia) defeated them in straight  sets, 6-2, 6-4.

In the men’s singles matches, World No 3 Andy Marray (England) played Italy’s Andreal Cheyee. In an entertaining & interesting match, Murray won in 4 sets – 6-2, 6-2, 1-6, 6-1. He will meet Carlowic from Croatia in the next round.

Today’s matches:

 

Sunday, 5th July, was a rest day. Today (Monday, 6th July), 4th round matches are scheduled for singles.

In the women’s section, matches include the following contests:

Serena Williams –  Venus Williams (USA), Maria Sharapova(Russia) – Zarina Dias (Kazakhstan), Wozniacki (Denmark) – Mukuruja (Spain), Azarenka (Belarus) – Belinda & Bencic (Switzerland)

Among the men’s singles following matches are scheduled:

Roger Federer (Switzerland) – Batista Achuth (Spain), Warwinka (Switzerland) – David Cabin (Belgium), & Djokovic (Serbis) – Kevin Anderson (South Africa)

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