New Delhi: The Indian challenge at the US Open Grand Slam tennis tournament got another jolt when Leander Paes and his Australian partner Samantha Stosur lost in the first-round of the mixed doubles event.
The duo lost to the unseeded Belarussian duo of Max Mirnyi and Victoria Azarenka at the US Open Grand Slam tennis on Friday.
Paes and Stosur, seeded third, won the first set 6-3 but failed to build on their lead and lost the next two sets 2-6, 5-10 to their unfancied rivals.
Mirnyi and Azarenka upped their game by a few notches after losing the first set to upset the Indian-Australian duo.
In the third set Paes and Stosur tried to make a comeback but in vain.
Paes had looked in much better touch in the doubles, where he is partnering Czech Martin Damm, carving out an easy 6-1 6-2 first-round victory over Petr Pala and Robin Vik of the Czech Republic.
Mahesh Bhupathi has already crashed out of both the men's doubles and mixed doubles event.
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