From correspondents in Paris, France, 06:00 PM IST

India's Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi made an early exit from the Paris Masters, going down in the second round with their partners.

Fourth seeded Paes and Lukas Dlouhy of Czech Republic went down to American Travis Parrott and Australian Jordan Kerr 7-6(5), 4-6, 5-10 Wednesday.

Bhupathi and Mark Knowles of Bahamas, seeded third, also lost a close match 4-6, 7-6 (6), 7-10 to Simon Aspelin of Sweden and Paul Hanley of Australia.

(Staff Writer, © IANS)