Four Indians advance to Men's Doubles second round of Wimbledon

Four Indians have advanced to the Men's Doubles second round of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships, the third Grand Slam of the season, in London. Rohan Bopanna and his French team-mate Edouard Roger-Vasselin seeded 12th, defeated the Aussie team of John Millman and Alex De Minaur, 6-2, 6-2, 6-4. 

The Indo-Kiwi pair of Divij Sharan and Artem Sitak beat the Moldovian-Tunisian duo of Radu Albot and Malek Jaziri, 7-6, 6-7, 6-3, 6-2. The pair of Sriram Balaji and Vishnu Vardhan got the better of New Zealand's Marcus Daniell and Dutch Wesley Koolhof, 7-6, 6-4, 7-6. The Indo-American team of Jeevan



Nedunchezhiyan and Austin Krajicek, however, bowed out. Purav Raja and his French partner Fabrice Martin had, earlier, made an exit.

In the Singles, third seeds Garbine Muguruza and Marin Cilic, fourth-placed Alexander Zverev and Stanislas Wawrinka made shocking second-round exits last night. Defending champion Muguruza became the sixth top-eight Women's seed to exit the tournament.

Both the World number ones Rafael Nadal and Simona Halep progressed to the third round, along with Novak Djokovic, Juan Martin del Potro and Kei Nishikori.