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August 15, 2008 15:43 IST

Indian pair of Leander Paes [Images] and Mahesh Bhupathi [Images] crashed out of men's tennis doubles event losing their quarterfinal match to Swiss duo of Roger Federer [Images] and Stanislas Wawrinka in the Beijing [Images] Olympics [Images] on Friday.

Paes and Bhupathi lost 2-6, 4-6 in the rain-hit match which resumed on Friday after the Indians had trailed 1-4 overnight.

With the defeat of Paes-Bhupathi, India's tennis campaign in the Beijing Olympics came to an end. Sania Mirza [Images] had conceded her first round singles match due to injury while she and Sunitha Rao had bowed out in the second round of women's doubles.



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