New Delhi: On Monday night Sania Mirza and Bethaine Mattek of the USA reached the last eight in the women’s doubles.

The
13th seeded Indo-US pair fought back from being a set down to level the
match and took a 2-0 lead in the decider when their opponents Akgul
Amanmuradova of Uzbekistan and Darya Kustova of Belarus retired hurt
with the score at 4-6, 6-4, 2-0.

They will now play the 11th seeded Williams sisters in the quarter-finals.

Leander
Paes and his Czech partner Lukas Dlouhy have also moved into the
semi-finals of the men’s doubles event at the Wimbledon beating the
third seeded pair of Jonathan Elrich and Andy Ram of Israel.

The ninth seeds won the match in straight sets 6-3, 6-3, 6-3 with ease.