Bad day in office

It was a bad day for three crack doubles teams — including serious Indian Olympic medal hopes Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi — w...

It was a bad day for three crack doubles teams — including serious Indian Olympic medal hopes Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi — who made quarter-final exits at the Cincinnati Masters.

First to perish were Americans Bob and Mike Bryan, then French pair Fabrice Santoro/Michael Llodra and then the eighth seeded Indians to Mark Knowles (Bahamas) and Daniel Nestor (Canada). The 6-3, 6-4 win was sweet revenge for Knowles and Nestor — the third seeds — who had lost in straight sets at Toronto just a few days back.

The one-hour-three-minute loss thus ended Paes-Bhupathi’s longest winning streak of 18 wins spread over two years.

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In the first set the Indians — who began as receivers — handed Knowles/Nestor the advantage in the fourth game. Facing two break-points, the Indians could save one to trail 1-3. In the next, the Indians fought hard, forced deuce, then advantage before losing.

Holding the next, Bhupathi/Paes lost the seventh at love despite their opponents faulting their first serves. The next two were formalities as both held serves and the opponents belting down an ace for the set.

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