SPORTS
Sania and Mattek-Sands advanced to the second round with a 7-5, 6-3 win on Court 8.
India's ace Sania Mirza and her American partner Bethanie Mattek-Sands advanced in women's doubles of the grass-court Grand Slam competition in the first round on Thursday.
Sania and Mattek-Sands started their latest campaign at Wimbledon by stunning the sixth-seeded pair, Alexa Guarachi of Chile and Desirae Krawczyk of the USA. They advanced with a 7-5, 6-3 win on Court 8.
Sania, who has bagged three Grand Slam doubles and as many mixed doubles titles so far had earlier won the Wimbledon ladies' doubles title in 2015.
As for the men's double, Rohan Bopanna and Divij Sharan crashed out of the tournament to 11th seeds, Henri Kontinen of Finland and France's Edouard Roger-Vasselin.
Bopanna and Sharan had missed the cut for Tokyo Olympics as they could not improve their combined ranking of 113. Bopanna and Sharan lost 6-7, 4-6 in the one hour and 20 minutes encounter.
Though the two pairs were evenly matched and Bopanna and Sharan had nine breakpoints, they could convert only one while their opponents capitalised on two of the four chances.