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Bhupathi-Mirnyi lose

April 01, 2004 21:16 IST

Mahesh Bhupathi and Max Mirnyi bowed out of the men's doubles in the $2.3 million ATP Tennis Masters in Miami after a 6-7 (3/7), 5-7 loss to Arnaud Clement and Sebastian Grosjean of France in the second round on Wednesday.

The second seeded Indo-Belarussian pair had earlier defeated Nicolas Kiefer and Rainer Schuettler 6-4, 6-0 in the first round.

Seventh seeds Leander Paes and David Rikl of the Czech Republic will play Jonas Bjorkman of Sweden and Australian Todd Woodbridge in the quarter-finals.

There was worse news from the $37,500 ATP Challenger event in Busan, the last event for the Indians going into the Davis Cup tie against Japan next week.

Prakash Amritraj went down to qualifier Dmitri Mazur of Uzbekistan 3-6, 6-3, 3-6 in the singles first round while Harsh Mankad was eliminated by second seed Alexander Peya of Austria 2-6, 3-6 in the second round.

Amritraj and Rohan Bopanna, who earlier lost to Mankad in the singles, were knocked out of the doubles play by the Japanese duo Toshihide Matsui Michihisa Onoda 6-4, 3-6, 4-6.

At the ITF Grade 1 juniors in Philippines, Karan Rastogi beat Hong Kong's Martin Sayer 6-2, 6-0 while Sanaa Bhambri overcame Indonesian Denise Harijanto 6-0, 3-6, 6-3.


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