Klaasen, Ram reach Round 3 at Wimbledon

London - After a 3 hour 30 minute battle, South Africa’s doubles specialist Raven Klaasen and his American partner Rajeev Ram moved into the third round at Wimbledon.

Klaasen and Ram, the seventh seeds, beat Indian pair Purav Raja and Dijiv Sharan 6-3, 6-4, 4-6, 6-7 (8/6), 10-8.

Klaasen and Ram will now meet unseeded Hans Podlipnik-Castillo of Chile and Andrei Vasilevski of Belarus in the third round.