Leander Paes [ Images ] and Mahesh Bhupathi [ Images ] rallied splendidly to make it to the second round of the men's doubles at Wimbledon [ Images ] on Friday.

The 1999 champions, who are seeded third, beat the Croatian combine of Ivan Dodig and Lovro Zovko 6-7(7-9), 6-4, 6-4.

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It was a good day for India [ Images ] at the All-England Club, as Sania Mirza [ Images ] and Somdev Devvarman [ Images ] also progressed.

Sania and her Russian partner Elena Vesnina made it to the third round after a hard-earned victory over Czech Renata Voracova and Galina Voskoboeva of Kazakhastan.

The fourth seeded Indo-Russian pair, which scored a comfortable 6-0, 7-6 (7-4) victory over the Russian-American combine of Anna Chakvetadze [ Images ] and Melanie Oudin [ Images ] on Thursday in the first round, prevailed 6-3, 5-7, 6-4.

Somdev and Japan's [ Images ] Kei Nishikori got the better of Germany's [ Images ] Rainer Schuettler [ Images ] and Alexander Waske 6-7 (3), 6-3, 6-2 in another first round men's doubles match.