Paes-Damm enter doubles third round of Wimbledon

London, July 1 (UNI) Leander Paes and Martin Damm sailed into the third round of the men's doubles event with a facile 6-4, 6-4, 6-3 win over the Czech pair of Jan Hernych and David Skoch at the Wimbledon here today.

The seventh seeded Indo-Czech pair was never stretched in the match as their unheralded opponents failed to put up a fight.

Paes and Damm will now take on the winner of the other second round match between the German-Belgian pair of Philipp Petzschner and Olivier Rochus and the Czech duo of Cyril Suk and Robin Vik.

Paes-Damm took control from the very start as Hernych and Skoch found it hard to hold on to their serve and were broken four times in the first two sets. The Indo-Czech pair wrested the initiative from the their rivals and tightened the grip over the proceedings.

The seventh seeds hardly put a foot wrong as they took the first two sets and later ran away with the third to wrap up the match in their favour.

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