Bopanna-Qureshi out of Dubai tennis

The wildcard pair of India's Rohan Bopanna and Pakistani Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi lost in the first round at the Dubai tennis championship but not before two furiously fought sets 6-7(4),5-7 against Czech Martin Damm and Swede Robert Lindstedt.

Damm and Lindstedt next meet Italian Simone Bolelli and Croat Ivo Karlovic in the quarter-final.

Bolelli and Karlovic had upset third-seeded Indo-Czech pair of Leander Paes and Lukas Dlouhy 6-4, 2-6, 10-8 in the first round.