Top seeds Leander Paes [ Images ] and Mahesh Bhupathi [ Images ] could not recreate their old chemistry and crashed out of the Indianapolis Tennis Championship with a first round defeat.

The 'Indian Express' pair failed to hold their nerve in the match tie-break and went down to the Canadian duo of Daniel Nestor [ Images ] and Frederic Niemeyer 4-6, 6-3, 10-12 in one hour and 25 minutes.

The result is bound to disappoint Paes and Bhupathi's innumerable fans who are expecting an Olympic [ Images ] medal from the duo.

After surrendering the first set, Paes and Bhupathi bounced back to snatch the second and draw parity. In the match tie-break, the Indian pair was trailing 6-9 before they went on to level the score and in fact lead 10-9.

Nestor and Niemeyer, however, were not ready to throw in the towel and won the next three consecutive points to get past their opponents.