LONDON: India's challenge in the mixed doubles of the Wimbledon Championships ended with the second round defeats of
Divij Sharan and
Rohan Bopanna.
Seeded 13th, Bopanna and his partner from Belarus,
Aryna Sabalenka
lost 4-6 4-6 to
Artem Sitak
from New Zealand and
Laura Siegemund
of Germany in one hour and 13 minutes.
Left-handed Sharan and his Chinese partner Yingying Duan lost 3-6 4-6 to British duo of
Eden Silva
and
Evan Hoyt
in 62 minutes.
Silva and Hoyt had knocked out
Leander Paes and his Australian partner
Samantha Stosur
in the first round.
Sharan is still alive in the men's doubles competition. Sharan and his Brazilian partner Marcelo Demoliner are set to take on top seeded combination of Marcelo Melo from Brazil and Lukasz Kubot of Poland on Monday.