<p>India’s Leander Paes entered the semifinals of the mixed doubles event even as Sania Mirza crashed out in the quarterfinals at the Wimbledon, here on Thursday.<br /><br /></p>.<p>While seventh seeded Paes and his Swiss partner Martina Hingis took little time to brush aside the challenge of unseeded Polish-Russian combination of Marcin Matkowski and Elina Vesnina 6-2, 6-1, second seeds Sania and Bruno Soares of Brazil were stunned 6-3, 6-7 (8), 7-9 by fifth seeds Alexander Peya of Austria and Timea Babos of Hungary.<br /><br />Paes amd Hingis will next face top seeded American pair of Mike Bryan and Bethanie Mattek-Sands in the semifinals.<br /><br />It was also curtains for India’s Rohan Bopanna’s whose bid to enter his maiden Wimbledon doubles final came to a disappointing end as he along with his Romanian partner Florin Mergea lost a marathon five-setter against fourth seeded Dutch-Romanian pair of Jean Julien-Rojer and Horia Tecau 4-6, 6-2, 6-3, 4-6, 13-11.</p>
<p>India’s Leander Paes entered the semifinals of the mixed doubles event even as Sania Mirza crashed out in the quarterfinals at the Wimbledon, here on Thursday.<br /><br /></p>.<p>While seventh seeded Paes and his Swiss partner Martina Hingis took little time to brush aside the challenge of unseeded Polish-Russian combination of Marcin Matkowski and Elina Vesnina 6-2, 6-1, second seeds Sania and Bruno Soares of Brazil were stunned 6-3, 6-7 (8), 7-9 by fifth seeds Alexander Peya of Austria and Timea Babos of Hungary.<br /><br />Paes amd Hingis will next face top seeded American pair of Mike Bryan and Bethanie Mattek-Sands in the semifinals.<br /><br />It was also curtains for India’s Rohan Bopanna’s whose bid to enter his maiden Wimbledon doubles final came to a disappointing end as he along with his Romanian partner Florin Mergea lost a marathon five-setter against fourth seeded Dutch-Romanian pair of Jean Julien-Rojer and Horia Tecau 4-6, 6-2, 6-3, 4-6, 13-11.</p>