First round defeats for Paes, Bhupathi

Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi suffered first round defeats in different tournaments on the ATP Tour on Wednesday.

Paes, partnering Martin Damm of the Czech Republic, went down 3-6, 4-6 to wild cards Ramon Delgado of Paraguay and American Rick Leach in the US $600,000 event in Washington.

Bhupathi, pairing with Chris Haggard of South Africa at the 645,000-euro event in Kitzbuhel, Austria, lost 4-6, 6-3, 5-10 to Germany's Philipp Kohlschreiber and Stefan Koubek of Austria.

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