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Bhupathi-Nestor, Sania-Mattek bow out of Indian Wells

March 10, 2013 18:16 IST
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India [ Images ]n challenge ended at the ATP Indian Wells Masters with the shock first round defeats of Mahesh Bhupathi [ Images ] and Sania Mirza [ Images ] in their respective events in India Wells.

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The third seeded pair of Bhupathi and Canadian Daniel Nestor [ Images ] bowed out of the men's doubles with a 4-6, 6-7 (4) defeat against Spaniard Feliciano Lopez [ Images ] and Milos Raonic of Canada [ Images ].

Sania MirzaRohan Bopanna [ Images ] had also made a first round exit in the same event with American partner Rajeev Ram.

In the women's doubles, eighth seeded team of Sania and America's Bethanie Mattek-Sands went down fighting 7-6 (8), 3-6, 6-10 against American Lisa Raymond [ Images ] and Samantha Stosur [ Images ] of Australia [ Images ] in their opening round clash.

Somdev Devvarman [ Images ] had failed to enter for the main draw of the men's singles with the first-round defeat in the qualifiers.

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