Fourth seeds Mahesh Bhupathi [ Images ] of India [ Images ] and Max Mirnyi [ Images ] of Belarus crashed out in the third round of the men's doubles at the U.S. Open Tennis Championships in New York.

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The duo lost to unseeded Spaniards Rafael Nadal [ Images ] and Tommy Robredo [ Images ] 4-6, 4-6.

Earlier, Bhupathi and Lisa Raymond [ Images ] of the United States went out of the mixed doubles in the second round.

In the junior boys' section, there was further set back for India when two more players went out in the first round.

Tushar Liberhan lost tamely to Russian Evgeniy Kirillov 2-6, 2-6, while Navdeep Singh put up a fight before losing 4-6, 5-7 to Phillip Simmonds of the United States.