Britain will have a women’s doubles pair in the quarter-finals of Wimbledon for the first time since 1973 after Naiktha Bains and Maia Lumsden secured their place on Monday.

In the men’s doubles, Britain’s Neal Skupski and Dutch team-mate Wesley Koolhof won to reach the third round.

Later, Briton Jamie Murray plays mixed doubles with partner Taylor Townsend.

British pair Heather Watson and Joe Salisbury are also seeking to reach the quarter-finals when they face Ivan Dodig and Latisha Chan.

Watson reached the quarter-finals at SW19 in 2018 with German partner Tatjana Maria but the last time Britain had a women’s doubles partnership in the quarter-finals was with Jo Durie and Anne Hobbs in 1973.

Wildcards Bains and Lumsden had already caused an upset in the first round, defeating 11th seeds Anna Danilina and Xu Yifan before downing Magda Linette and Bernarda Pera, two players who were seeded in the singles draw.

The pair will hope to continue their unexpected run at the All England Club against Czech team Miriam Kolodziejova and Marketa Vondrousova or third seeds Elise Mertens and Storm Hunter in the last eight.

Top men’s seeds Skupski and Koolhof, who are yet to win a Grand Slam together, beat Australian pair Rinky Hijikata and Jason Kubler 7-6 (7-3) 6-2 to reach the quarter-finals.

Skupksi and American partner Desirae Krawczyk’s Wimbledon title defence in the mixed doubles is already over after they lost to Belgium’s Joran Vliegen and China’s Xu Yifan in the opening round.

The Liverpudlian has only gone beyond the third round once in men’s doubles at Wimbledon in 2017, but is highly fancied this year with Koolhof after the duo reached a first Grand Slam final last year and were semi-finalists at Queen’s.

Meanwhile, Hugo Coquelin and Johannus Monday lost their second-round match 7-5 6-3 to India’s Rohan Bopanna and Australian Matthew Ebden.