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Paes & Bhupathi ousted

INDIANAPOLIS: Top seeds Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi crashed out of the Indianapolis Tennis Championship on Wednesday with a 6-4, 3-6, 12-10 first round defeat to the Canadian duo of Daniel Nestor and Frederic Niemeyer.

After surrendering the first set, Paes and Bhupathi bounced back to snatch the second. In the match tie-break, the Indians were trailing 6-9 before they went on to level the score and in fact had matchpoints at 10-9. Nestor and Niemeyer, however, won the next three consecutive points to wrap it up. Meanwhile, Sania Mirza’s campaign in the Bank of the West Classic in Stanford came to a close, after she and partner Anna Chakvetadze lost in the first round of the doubles.

Czech Republic’s Eva Hrdinova and Vladimira Uhlirova defeated the Indo-Russian combine 6-3, 6-4.

The results: At Kitzbuhel (Austria Open) Second round: Potito Starace bt Daniel Koellerer 6-4, 6-3; Eduardo Schwank bt Daniel Brands 6-1, 6-4; Victor Hanescu bt Guillermo Garcia-Lopez 6-2, 6-1; Brian Dabul bt Ivo Minar 6-4, 6-3.

At Amersfoort (Dutch Open): Second round: Jose Acasuso bt Eduardo Roger-Vasselin 6-3, 6-4; Marcel Granollers bt Ivan Navarro 6-4, 6-4; Albert Montanes bt Pablo Cuevas 6-4, 6-4.

At Umag (Croatia Open): Second round: Fernando Verdasco bt Mathieu Montcourt 7-6(5), 6-1; Carlos Moya bt Viktor Troicki 3-6, 7-6(2), 7-5; Fabio Fognini bt Filippo Volandri 6-4, 6-4; Mischa Zverev bt Marcos Daniel 6-4, 6-2.

At Indianapolis (Indianapolis Championships): Second round: Gilles Simon bt Benjamin Becker 7-5, 3-6, 6-0; Dmitry Tursunov w/o Wayne Odesnik; Tommy Haas bt John Isner 6-3, 6-4; Paul Capdeville bt Joseph Sirianni 6-3, 6-4. Doubles (First round): Daniel Nestor & Frederic Niemeyer bt Mahesh Bhupathi & Leander Paes 6-4, 3-6, 12-10.

At Bad Gastein (Gastein Ladies): Second round: Patricia Mayr bt Rossana de los Rios 6-3, 6-3.

At Stanford (Bank of the West Classic): Second round: Serena Williams bt Michelle Larcher de Brito 4-6, 6-3, 6-2; Anna Chakvetadze bt Shahar Peer 6-3, 6-4; Ai Sugiyama bt Daniela Hantuchova 6-3, 6-1; Dominika Cibulkova bt Kateryna Bondarenko 6-2, 6-3. Doubles (first round): Eva Hrdinova & Vladimira Uhlirova bt Anna Chakvetadze& Sania Mirza 6-3, 6-4. — Agencies

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