Defending champions Mahesh Bhupathi and Max Mirnyi crashed out of the US Open men's double event suffering a shock defeat against Michael Llorda and Fabrice Santoro in the quarterfinals.

The top-seeded Indo-Belarussian pair failed to get even a single break point during the last night match which they lost 2-6 2-6 against the French pair.
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Both Bhupathi and his partner played miserably for most part of the match, which lasted only 46 minutes.
Earlier Bhupathi and Mirnyi had booked a berth in the last eight beating 15th seed pair of Lucas Arnold and Mariano Hood of Argentina in their pre-quarterfinal match.
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