Indian Wells: Leander Paes and Mahesh
Bhupathi suffered shock first round defeats along with their
respective partners to bow out of the ATP Masters series event
here.
Third seeds Paes and Czech Lukas Dlouhy went down
fighting 4-6, 6-3, 6-10 to Spanish wild card pair of Rafael
Nadal and Marc Lopez, last night.
Bhupathi and his Belarusian partner Max Mirnyi, seeded
fourth, lost closely fought first round 4-6, 4-6 to Igor
Andreev of Russia and Evgeny Korolev of Kazakhstan.
Both the pairs did not get any ranking point but spilt
USD 6980 each for competing in the USD 3,645,000 hard court
event.
No Indian players is competing in the singles main draw.
Prakash Amritraj and Somdev Devvarman competed in the
singles qualifying event but lost in the first and second
rounds respectively.
PTI
First Published: Monday, March 15, 2010, 15:41