Paes-Dlouhy lose again at Tennis Masters Cup

Shanghai, Nov 12: Leander Paes and Lukas Dlouhy`s chance of reaching the semi-finals of Tennis Masters Cup went up in smoke after they succumbed to their second successive defeat in the season-ending USD 4,45,000 ATP event. The sixth-seeded Indo-Czech pair lost their Gold group league match 6-7 (2), 3-6 to Polish duo Mariusz Fyrstenberg and Marcin Matkowski. Only the top two teams of Red and Gold groups will make the semi-final stage. Paes and Dlouhy had plenty of chances in the first set but squandered all three breakpoints and eventually handed the lead to their opponents after losing the tie-break. In the second, they dropped serve thrice and that was enough for the players from Poland to win the match. Bureau Report