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Bopanna advances, Sania loses at Wimbledon

Bopanna and Gabriela Dabrowski defeated Nikola Mektic and Ana Konjuh 7-6, 6-2 in 63 minutes.

Bopanna advances, Sania loses at Wimbledon

Rohan Bopanna (Photo: AFP)

Indian stars Rohan Bopanna and Sania Mirza encountered contrasting fortunes in their respective mixed doubles matches at the Wimbledon tennis tournament here on Wednesday.

Bopanna and his Canadian patner Gabriela Dabrowski defeated the Croatian pair of Nikola Mektic and Ana Konjuh 7-6, 6-2 in 63 minutes.

The 10th seeded Indo-Canadian pair will meet the unseeded duo of Heather Watson of Britain and Henri Kontinen of Finland in the quarter-finals.

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Watson and Kontinen had defeated fourth seeds Sania and her Croatian partner Ivan Dodig 7-6, 6-4 in an hour and 26 minutes.

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