Paes's Australian Open campaign over

Leander Paes's [ Images ] campaign at the Australian Open [ Images ] came to an end when he and Elena Vesnina of Russia [ Images ] were knocked out of the mixed doubles in Melbourne [ Images ], on Tuesday.

Paes-Vesnina went down 3-6, 2-6 to the Australian duo of Jarmila Gajdosova and Matthew Ebden in a second round match.

Gajdosova-Ebden will take on another Indo-Russian combine, Mahesh Bhupathi [ Images ] and Nadia Petrova [ Images ], in the quarter-finals.

Bhupathi-Petrova had earlier in the day entered the last eight, rallying from a set down to register a 3-6, 6-2, 10-5 victory over Katarina Srebotnik of Slovakia and Nenad Zimonjic of Serbia.

Paes and Radek Stepanek were knocked out in the first round of the men's doubles. They lost 3-6, 5-7 to South Africa's [ Images ] Kevin Anderson and Israel's Jonathan Erlich.

On Monday, Sania Mirza [ Images ] and her new American partner Bob Bryan advanced to the quarter-finals after a come-from-behind victory.

The third seeded Indo-American pair defeated the US team of Abigail Spears and Scott Lipsky 4-6, 6-1, 10-4 in the second round.

They meet the Czech pair of Lucie Hradecka and Frantisek Cermak for a place in the semi-finals.

Rohan Bopanna [ Images ] and his Taipei partner Su-Wei Hsieh also made the grade with a 6-1, 7-5 win over Daniela Hantuchova [ Images ] of Slovakia and Fabio Fognini of Italy [ Images ].

They next clash with Kveta Peschke of the Czech Republic and Marcin Matkowski of Poland.

Sania and Bopanna will clash in the semi-finals if they win their next round matches.

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