Jamie Murray saved the best for last on another outstanding day for the Scot at Wimbledon.

There was late-night drama under the Centre Court roof in the mixed doubles as Murray and Victoria Azarenka reeled off six successive games to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat.

Murray, who won the 2017 mixed title with Martina Hingis, has paired up with Azarenka and they looked to be heading out in the second round to Robert Farah and Anna-Lena Groenefeld.

But from 5-1 behind in the final set, they came back to win 7-6 (8/6) 6-7 (6/8) 7-5 and delight a raucous crowd.

Murray praised Azarenka and said: “I was just watching her smash winners. It was amazing. There was a real long game at 4-1 and I couldn’t get a winner and I thought that was maybe our chance gone.

“Then she started hitting winners every time she hit it and 20 minutes later we won.”

Earlier, Murray kept his pursuit of a first men’s doubles title at the All England Club on course as he went through with Bruno Soares.

The Scot and Soares, who have won the Australian Open and US Open together, beat British brothers Ken and Neal Skupski 6-3 6-4 6-4.

That sets up a quarter-final meeting with Raven Klaasen and Michael Venus.

They may be at loggerheads come Wednesday evening but Dom Inglot and Franko Skugor were all smiles after progressing through to the men’s doubles quarter-finals.

Englishman Inglot and Croatian Skugor will see their respective national football teams battle it out in a World Cup semi-final on Wednesday.

They were on the same side on Monday, as they downed Maximo Gonzalez and Nicolas Jarry 4-6 7-6 (7/5) 7-6 (8/6) 6-3.

Inglot said: “It was tricky, I don’t think we were playing as well as we have in some of those other matches. But we scrapped it out.

“It’s really reassuring that when you win when you’re not playing at your absolute A level.

“Franko kept saying, ‘Stick at it, don’t worry’, and he was right.”

Henri Kontinen and Heather Watson also progressed in the mixed doubles.

The 2016 champions beat Marcin Matkowski and Mihaela Buzarnescu 6-2 5-7 7-5.

Watson admits she would love a repeat of her win with Kontinen two years ago.

“We like Wimbledon,” said the Briton. “We have great memories, winning was one of the best days of my life. I just really eoy being on the court with Henry, I think we get on super well.

Watson and German Tatjana Maria earlier got a walkover in the women’s doubles when Jelena Ostapenko and Christina McHale withdrew.

Jay Clarke and Harriet Dart moved into the third round of the mixed doubles with a three-set win. The youngsters beat 13th seeds Max Mirnyi and Kveta Peschke 6-2 4-6 6-4 on Court Three.

Joe Salisbury continued his impressive partnership with Dane Frederik Nielsen as they beat Juan Sebastian Cabal and Robert Farah 5-7 7-6 (7/3) 6-3 7-6 (7/1).