Sania Mirza [ Images ] and Maria Vento-Kabchi of Venezuela flopped in the doubles second round of the USD 1m Dubai [ Images ] Duty Free Women's Open tennis tournament on Friday.

Sania and her partner Maria bowed out 3-6, 2-6 against Daniela Hantuchova [ Images ] of Slovakia and Ai Sugiyama [ Images ] of Japan [ Images ] in a rain-interrupted match.

The second semifinal will be played between Ukrainian duo of Alona Bondarenko and Kateryna Bondarenko and Kveta Peschke of Czech Republic and Francesca Schiavone of Italy [ Images ].

In Rotterdam, Mahesh Bhupathi [ Images ] and Wesley Moodie [ Images ] of South Africa [ Images ] faltered after a keenly contested battle in the second round of the 782,250 euro ABN Amro World Tennis Tournament.

Bhupathi-Moodie, who had got a walkover in the first round, lost to Jonathan Erlich and Andy Ram [ Images ] of Israel 5-7, 6-7 (4-7) at Rotterdam in The Netherlands.

The Indo-South African pair had got a walkover after Novak Djokovic [ Images ] of Serbia and Andreas Seppi of Italy did not turn up for their opening round tie.

While Erlich and Ram were in best of their form as they had advanced after beating top seeds Mark Knowles [ Images ] of Bahrain and Daniel Nestor [ Images ] of Canada [ Images ] in their previous match.

Third seeds Leander Paes [ Images ] and Martin Damm [ Images ] have already ended their run in the first round after suffering a defeat against Mario Ancic of Croatia [ Images ] and Thomas Johansson of Sweden.