Paes-Navratilova move into third round

Leander Paes and Martina Navratilova advanced to the third round of the mixed doubles event at the Wimbledon tennis championships.

The fifth seeded Indo-American pair defeated Spain's Alex Lopez Moron and Rossana Neffa-De Los Rios of Parma 6-0 6-1 in the second round on Monday.

Paes also won his men's doubles third round match as he, in tandem with David Rikl of the Czech Republic, ousted Ecuador duo Giovanni Lanpentti and Nicolas Lapentti 3-6 6-3 7-6 (7/5) 6-3.

Paes and Rikl next face the third seed American brothers Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan in the quarterfinals.

The other Indian star gunning for a Wimbledon crown, Mahesh Bhupathi had his second round mixed doubles match suspended due to fading light.

Bhupathi and Paola Suarez of Argentina, the top seeds, were level with Jared Palmer and Abigail Spears of the US 6-4 6-7 (2/7) 0-0 when play was abandoned.

Bhupathi's scheduled men's doubles match with Belarussian Max Mirnyi against Gaston Etlis and Martin Rodriques of Argentina is to be played on Tuesday.

In the boys' singles, Karan Rastogi went down to Dudi Sela of Israel 2-6 6-3 3-6.

Somdev Dev Verman was scheduled to take on David Mullings of Bahamas in another match.

In the girls section, Sania Mirza will play Eden Maram of New Zealand.