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Australian Open: Paes-Stosur crash out
Veteran Leander Paes and his partner Samantha Stosur suffered a 6-4 4-6 8-10 defeat in the second round of the mixed doubles event, ending India’s campaign at the Australian Open here on Tuesday.
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The unseeded pair of Paes and Stosur won the first set 6-4 against Anna-Lena Groenefeld and Robert Farah, but conceded the second with the same scoreline.
The third set went into tie-break, with the fifth seed German-Colombian duo emerging victorious 10-8. Paes and Stosur had beaten the Dutch-Czech pairing of Wesley Koolhof and Kveta Peschke in the ‘Round of 32’.
The 45-year-old Paes had made a first round exit in the men’s doubles event with Mexican partner Miguel Angel Reyes-Varela.
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