Rohan Bopanna-Florin Mergea Knocked Out of Dubai Tennis

Rohan Bopanna and partner Florin Mergea suffered a shock first round exit at the $2.2 million Dubai Tennis Championships here on Wednesday. (Rohan Bopanna Focussed on Getting Top 10 Ranking and Not Olympics)

Second seeds Bopanna and Romanian Florin Mergea lost to the unseeded Canadian-Czech pairing of Daniel Nestor and Radek Stepanek 6-3, 6-7(6), 4-10 in an hour and 24 minutes on Court No.3 at the Aviation Club Tennis Centre.

Yuki Bhambri and Mahesh Bhupathi had lost their respective opening matches on Tuesday.

The Indo-Romanian pair dominated the first set, winning 29 of the 49 points played. Though the unseeded combine earned three breakpoint chances, they wasted them all. The Canadian-Czech pair won the next two sets to come out winners.