Paes-Stepanek knocked out of BMW Open

The Indo-Czech pair of Leander Paes and Radek Stepanek was thrashed by Austrian-Brazilian duo Alexander Peya and Bruno Soares in the men's doubles quarterfinals of the BMW Open tennis here today.
The top seeds notched up a comfortable 6-2 6-1 win in 54 minutes on the clay courts of MTTC Iphitos.
Peya and Soares completely dominated at the start by saving three breakpoints and winning two to easily take the advantage in the first set where they won 25 of the 45 points played.
The script got even better for the top seeds as they took a game less to close the set and match in their favour.

With their win, Peya and Soares levelled their head-to-head to 2-2 against Paes-Stepanek. It was the first meeting between the two pairs on a clay court with the previous meetings coming on hard courts.