Leander Paes- Radek Stepanek advance to the third round

London: Leander Paes who confirmed his participation in the Olympics just yesterday, along with his Czech partner Radek Stepanek notched up a 6-2 6-4 7-6 (5) victory over Isreali combination of Jonathan Erlich and Andy Ram in a gruelling two hour and 20 minutes battle at the Wimbledon.

Seeded fourth in the tournament, Paes and Stepanek rode on their batter serves and broke their rivals twice in the first set.

The Israeli pair started to get their bearings right in the second set but they failed to create opportunities even as Paes and Stepanek broke them once out of the five chances that came their way.

In the third set, both the pairs broke each other once but in the end it was the Indo-Czech combination who had the last laugh.

The duo takes on the winner of the match between Martin Emmrich and Michael Kohlmann and Ivan Dodig and Marcelo Melo.