The Indian tennis player  Sania Mirza and her Croatian partner Ivan Dodig today will have a match with  British-Finnish pair of Heather Watson and Henri Kontinen today to book their place in the mixed doubles quarter-finals of the Wimbledon.

Mirza and Dodig defeated Japanese pair of Yosuke Watanuki and Makoto Ninomiya by 7-6 (5), 6-2 in a match that lasted one hour and 18 minutes.

Earlier this year, the Indo-Croatian pair made it to the finals of the season-opening Australian Open before going down in straight sets at the hands of the American-Colombian team of Abigail Spears and Juan Sebastian Cabal.

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