The top seeded pair of Rohan Bopanna [ Images ] and Aisam-ul-haq Qureshi [ Images ] made a shock exit from the ATP Eastbourne event, suffering a straight-set defeat in the doubles quarter-finals.

Bopanna and Qureshi, winners of last week's Gerry Weber Open, lost 5-7, 3-6 to the unseeded combination of Grigor Dimitrov of Bulgaria and Italian Andreas Seppi.

With this defeat, the Indian challenge ended in the event, the last warm-up tournament before the grass court Wimbledon [ Images ] championships.

Bopanna and Qureshi could convert just one of the four break-points in the first set and none of two in the second set.

Somdev Devvarman [ Images ] and Sania Mirza [ Images ] had already crashed out of their respective events.

Sania could not make the singles main draw, and she and Elena Vesnina of Russia [ Images ] lost in the first round of the women's doubles.

Somdev reached second round in singles but lost the men's doubles opener, partnering Mark Knowles [ Images ].

Somdev, who stunned fourth seed Guillermo Garcia-Lopez of Spain 6-3, 6-4 in the first round, fought hard before going down 6-7(1), 7-6(6), 3-6 to Julien Benneteau [ Images ] of France [ Images ] in a round of 16 clash that lasted little more than two-and-a-half hours.

Third seeded pair of Sania and Elena lost 7-5, 4-6, 6-10 to the unseeded Australian duo of Samantha Stosur [ Images ] and Jarmila Gajdosova.