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Paes-Damm in last eight

Last updated on: July 05, 2006 00:20 IST

Leander Paes [ Images ] and Martin Damm [ Images ] stormed into the quarter-finals of the men's doubles at Wimbledon [ Images ] on Monday.

The seventh seeded Indo-Czech pair had things their way while beating Cyril Suk and Robin Vik of the Czech Republic 6-2, 6-1, 7-6(7-1) in a third round match.

They meet the winners of the match between Irakli Labadze/Dusan Vemic and fourth seeds Paul Henley/Kevin Ullett.

Paes, the Indian Davis Cup spearhead, also advanced in the mixed doubles. He and Australia's [ Images ] Samantha Stosur [ Images ] beat Paul Hanley [ Images ] and Tatiana Perebiynis in a close second round match.

The fourth seeds prevailed over the Aussie-Ukrainian duo 4-6, 6-3, 12-10.

However, the Indian challenge in the tournament was reduced as Sania Mirza [ Images ] crashed out of the women's doubles.

Sania and Michaella Krajicek of the Netherlands lost to Russia's [ Images ] Elena Dementieva [ Images ] and Flavia Penetta of Italy [ Images ] in the second round.

Dementieva and Penetta, seeded eight, won 6-4, 6-2.

Also on the losing side was 11th seeds Mahesh Bhupathi [ Images ] and his Chinese partner Zi Yan, who went down to the ace American pairing of Bob Bryan and Venus Williams [ Images ] 6-4, 6-1 in the second round of the mixed doubles.

In the boys' singles, 14th seed Jeevan Neduncheziya lost to local lad Ed Corrie 6-0, 6-7(4/7), 6-1 while Slovakia's Andrei Martin defeated Rupesh Roy 6-2, 7-5.

In the Over-45 men's doubles, Vijay and Anand Amritraj lost to Iran's Mansour Bahrami and American Gene Mayer 6-2, 7-6(7/5).