London July 7 (IANS) India s Divij Sharan and his New Zealand partner Artem Sitak survived a tough five-set battle to enter the third round of the men s doubles category at the Wimbledon tennis tournament here on Saturday.
The unseeded Indo-Kiwi combination had started poorly as they lost the first couple of sets to Julio Peralta of Chile and Argentina s Horacio Zeballos.
But Sharan and Sitak made a superb comeback winning the next three sets to carve out a 6-7 4-6 6-3 7-6 6-4 victory in a gruelling contest which lasted for three hours and 22 minutes.
They will face Jonathan Erlich of Israel and Marcin Matkowski of Poland in the next round.

--IANS ajb/vd