London: India's tennis star Sania Mirza and her women's doubles partner Switzerland's Martina Hingis suffered a shock defeat in the quarter-finals of the Wimbledon tennis tournament on Thursday.

The top seeded Indo-Swiss pair was knocked out by fifth seeds Hungary's Timea Babos and Kazakhstan's Yaroslava Shvedova 2-6, 4-6 in just 68 minutes.

The Hungarian-Kazakhstani pair got off to a positive start, winning 13 of the 17 first serve points and winning two out of two break points to put the top seeds on the back foot.