The Indo-Belarussian pair, who won the US Open doubles crown last year, are the top seeds at the Estoril event.
Nandita Saha and Visakha Vijay lost in straight games
The top seeds lost to seventh seeds Gaston Etlis and Martin Rodriguez of Argentina in the quarter-finals of the Monte Carlo Masters.\n\n
He is demanding safe exit to the former soviet republic of Belarus, The Sunday Mirror said.
In the women's event of the Nasdaq 100 Open, second seed Venus Williams joined sister Serena in the last eight.
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Top seeds Mahesh Bhupathi and Max Mirnyi got a walkover in the semi-final when their opponents Cyril Suk and Martin Damm withdrew.
Bhupathi and Paes are in the separate half of the draw and may face each other in the final.
Grandmaster SP Sethuraman had to defend with the skin of his teeth but the effort was rewarding as he held higher ranked compatriot P Harikrishna to a draw in the first game of the second round of World Cup of Chess in Baku, Azerbaijan.
Under the lights on the stadium court, Williams smashed 39 winners to defeat Azarenka 7-5, 6-3 in a rematch of the 2016 final, which the Belarusian won.
The Indian GM beat Levan Pantsulaia of Georgia to move to joint fourth place in the World junior chess championship.
He and Elena Likhovtseva won their second round match against Liezel Huber and Pavel Vizner at the French Open.
Bhupathi and Max Mirnyi of Belarus have been seeded second, while Paes and his Czech partner David Rikl are the fifth seeds.
The pair beat Michael Llodra and Fabrice Santoro in the final.
Their exit gave the Bryan twins, Mike and Bob, the year-end world No. 1 ranking.
The World No. 2 doubles pair beat Australia's Wayne Arthurs and Paul Hanley for their first victory in the ATP Masters Cup.
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Victoria Azarenka's hopes of a remarkable comeback Australian Open victory crumbled under Angelique Kerber's winners on Wednesday but the Belarusian was pleased with solid three weeks Down Under that made her feel she had turned a corner.
The country's former Davis Cup stars moan the exit from the elite World Group for the first time in 20 years.
The US ace broke his record with a 155mph (249kph) serve as the U.S. took a 2-0 lead over Belarus in their Davis Cup semi-final.
The Wimbledon girls' doubles champion was beaten by Stephanie Dubois at the Canada Open.
The top seeds will take on seventh seeds Wayne Arthurs and Paul Hanley of Australia.
The unseeded Indian ace whipped Vitali Chevts of Belarus to set up a meeting with fifth seed Todor Enev of Bulgaria in the ITF Futures tournament.
Grandmaster Levon Aronian and Ni Hua share the lead after the sixth round in the World junior chess championships.
The top seeds beat Leander Paes and David Rikl in the semi-finals
The top seeds will take on Leander Paes and David Rikl.
The Indian ace won his men's doubles and mixed doubles matches at the french Open on Saturday.
Paes/Rikl and Bhupathi/Miryni won their first round doubles matches at the French Open easily.
World number five Alexander Zverev continued his poor recent form as he crashed out of the Italian Open in the second round while Serena Williams had to pull out of the women's draw with a recurring knee injury.
The pair had to concede a walk-over at the Barcelona Open as Miryni too ill.
IMAGES from the matches played on Day 2 of the Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championships at All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club on Tuesday.
The Indo-Belarusian pair easily beat Lucas Arnold and Mariano Hood of Argentina in the final.\n\n
The Indian men and women missed out on the podium by a whisker as they finished fourth in both the categories at the World Team Chess Championships, in Khanty Mansiysk, Russia.
The Welsh, who reached the Euro 2016 semi-finals, finished runners-up on 14 points from eight games, three behind Croatia who sealed their berth on Saturday with a 3-1 win over Slovakia.
