Top seeds Mahesh Bhupathi [ Images ] and Max Mirnyi [ Images ] crashed out of the doubles competition in the $2.2 million Tennis Masters Tournament in Cincinnati, USA, losing their semi-final match to Australia's [ Images ] Wayne Arthurs and Paul Hanley [ Images ].

The Indo-Belarussian pair lost 5-7, 7-6 (7-5), 3-6.

Bhupathi-Mirnyi, the Wimbledon [ Images ] runners-up, had claimed their third title of the season in the Montreal Masters Tournament in Canada [ Images ] last week and their good run at Cincinnati had raised hopes of another title triumph for the pair.

Bhupathi's former partner Leander Paes [ Images ] has had no such luck however in the tournament, and he bowed out of the event in the second round alongwith partner David Rikl of Czech Republic.