Bhupathi-Likhovtseva in third round

Mahesh Bhupathi and Elena Likhovtseva advanced to the third round of the mixed doubles in the Wimbledon tennis championships.

The Indo-Russian pair defeated Chris Haggard of South Africa and Zi Yan of China 6-3, 7-6 (7/5).

They play Daniel Nestor of Canada and Lina Krasnoroutskaya of Russia, who posted an easy 6-2, 6-2 victory over Michael Hill of Austria and Tathiana Garbin of Italy on Tuesday, for a berth in the quarter-finals.

In boys' doubles, fifth seeds Karan Rastogi and Chu-Huan Yi of Chinese Taipei advanced to the second round with a hard-fought three-set win.

Trailing by a set, Rastogi-Yi rallied superbly to beat Austrians Martin Fischer and Phillip Oswald 6-7(6/8), 6-1, 6-2.

They now take on the US-Argentine duo of Vahid Mirzadeh and Juan Pablo Amado.

However, Divij Sharan and Tushar Liberhan lost 3-6, 4-6 to top seeds Alex Kuznetsov of USA and Mihail Zverev of Germany in the first round.

The Indian challenge in the girls' doubles ended when Tara Iyer and Elizabeth Kobak of the US went down to Katerina Bondarenko of Ukraine and Madaline Gojnea of Romania in the first round.

The Indo-US pair lost 6-3, 0-6, 5-7.