Bopanna-Qureshi out, Indian challenge over in Eastbourne
June 16th, 2011 - 8:44 pm ICT by IANS
Eastbourne (England), June 16 (IANS) India’s Rohan Bopanna and Pakistan’s Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi, dubbed the Indo-Pakistan Express, bowed out the doubles quarter-finals of the 462,675-euro AEGON International tennis here.
The top seeded Indian-Pakistan pair, who won the Gerry Weber Open at Halle last week, lost to Bulgaria’s Grigor Dimitrov and Andreas Seppi of Italy 5-7, 3-6 here Wednesday.
With their loss, India’s participation in the event is over.
Somdev Devvarman, who shocked fourth-seeded Guillermo Garcia-Lopez of Spain in the men’s singles first round, went down fighting to Frenchman Julien Benneteau 6-7(1), 7-6(6), 3-6 in the second round.
The Indian partnering Mark Knowles of the Bahamas had lost in the opening round of doubles to Yen-Hsun Lu of Chinese Taipei and Oliver Marach of Austria 3-6, 4-6.
In the women’s doubles, French Open finalists Sania Mirza and Elena Vesnina of Russia crashed out in the opening round 7-5, 4-6, 6-10 to Australians Jarmila Gajdosova and Samantha Stosur. Sania failed to make the singles main draw.
- Sania in mixed doubles third round, women's doubles semis (Lead) - Jun 30, 2011
- French Open: Paes-Bhupathi seeded 3rd, Bopanna-Qureshi 5th - May 23, 2011
- French Open: Paes-Bhupathi, Bopanna-Qureshi advance, Somdev exits - May 26, 2011
- China Open: Wozniacki, Zvonareva move ahead; Stosur eliminated - Oct 04, 2011
- Australian Open: Sania in quarters of doubles and mixed event - Jan 23, 2012
- Monfils advances in Stockholm Open as seeds crash out - Oct 21, 2011
- Australian Open: Bhupathi-Bopanna, Sania-Vesnina enter doubles pre-quarters - Jan 21, 2012
- French Open: Paes, Bhupathi in mixed doubles second round - May 26, 2011
- Wimbledon: Somdev, Sania to shoulder India's singles challenge - Jun 19, 2011
- Wimbledon: Somdev, Sania to spearhead India's singles challenge (Lead) - Jun 19, 2011
- Woznicaki scrapes past Hradecka in China Open - Oct 03, 2011
- Somdev crashes out of Shanghai Masters opening round - Oct 10, 2011
- Paes-Black crash out of US Open mixed doubles - Sep 07, 2010
- Somdev out of US Men's Clay Court Championships - Apr 08, 2011
- French Open: Sania-Vesnina in women's doubles second round - May 25, 2011
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