Paes-Martina crash out

Leander Paes’ stay at Paris ended with his loss in the mixed doubles. Paes playing alongside Martina Navratilova lost in the second round to Angelique Widjaja of Indonesia and Lucas Arnold of Argentina 7-5, 7-5.

But third seeds Mahesh Bhupathi and Max Mirnyi of Belarus scored a clinical 6-3, 6-4 win over Karsten Braasch of Germany and Sargis Sargsian of Armenia to book a berth in the men’s doubles semifinals at the French Open.

In the boys’ singles, Tushar Liberhan upset 10th seed Woong-Sun Jun of Korea 4-6, 6-2, 6-3 to advance to the third round. Karan Rastogi, the 12th seed, went down to Martin Fisher of Austria 2-6, 6-1, 3-6. — (Agencies)