Mahesh Bhupathi [ Images ] and Max Mirnyi [ Images ] bowed out of the men's doubles in the $2.3 million ATP Tennis Masters in Miami [ Images ] after a 6-7 (3/7), 5-7 loss to Arnaud Clement [ Images ] and Sebastian Grosjean of France [ Images ] in the second round on Wednesday.

The second seeded Indo-Belarussian pair had earlier defeated Nicolas Kiefer [ Images ] and Rainer Schuettler [ Images ] 6-4, 6-0 in the first round.

Seventh seeds Leander Paes [ Images ] and David Rikl of the Czech Republic will play Jonas Bjorkman [ Images ] of Sweden and Australian Todd Woodbridge in the quarter-finals.

There was worse news from the $37,500 ATP Challenger event in Busan, the last event for the Indians going into the Davis Cup tie against Japan [ Images ] next week.

Prakash Amritraj [ Images ] went down to qualifier Dmitri Mazur of Uzbekistan 3-6, 6-3, 3-6 in the singles first round while Harsh Mankad was eliminated by second seed Alexander Peya of Austria 2-6, 3-6 in the second round.

Amritraj and Rohan Bopanna [ Images ], who earlier lost to Mankad in the singles, were knocked out of the doubles play by the Japanese duo Toshihide Matsui Michihisa Onoda 6-4, 3-6, 4-6.

At the ITF Grade 1 juniors in Philippines, Karan Rastogi [ Images ] beat Hong Kong's Martin Sayer 6-2, 6-0 while Sanaa Bhambri overcame Indonesian Denise Harijanto 6-0, 3-6, 6-3.