Australian Open: Leander Paes and Radek Stepanek knocked out
Paes and Stepanek were stunned in straight sets 3-6, 5-7 by South African Kevin Anderson and Israeli Jonathan Erlich in the first round of the Australian Open.
India’s Leander Paes and his Czech partner Radek Stepanek were stunned in straight sets 3-6, 5-7 by South African Kevin Anderson and Israeli Jonathan Erlich in the first round of the Australian Open tennis here today.
The Indo-Czech pair just could not get going in the first set and thought they fought back in the second set only to be edged out in the end.