London: Leander Paes and his Czech Republic partner, Martin Damm, on Thursday edged out Chris Haggard of South Africa and Marcin Matkowski of Poland in a tough encounter to advance to the Wimbledon men’s doubles second round.

The fifth seeded Indo-Czech pair put it past Haggard and Matkowski 7-6 (7-4), 6-3, 7-5.

In the second round, Paes and Damm will face the winners of the match between James Auckland of England and Australian Stephen Huss and Ilia Bozoljac of Serbia and Belgium’s Dick Norman.