London: Leander Paes emerged victorious in a contest involving three Indians as he and his partner Cara Black defeated Mahesh Bhupathi and Sania Mirza to advance to the mixed doubles quarter-finals of Wimbledon Championships here.
Top seeded Paes and Zimbabwean Black won 6-2, 6-7(2), 6-3 in the two-hour-and-seven-minute third-round contest, which was the first between the two pairs, on Monday night.
Paes and Black, who won the US Open mixed doubles title last year, were clearly the better pair in a rare match and also took advantage of the unforced errors committed by their opponents.
Thirteenth seeds Bhupathi and Sania committed nine double faults as compared to just one by their opponents though the all-Indian pair sent down more number of aces (six to three).
Paes and Black got as many as eight break points in the first set out of which they converted two to win it in 35 minutes.
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