Marcos Bagdhatis proved too hot to handle for Prakash Amritraj [ Images ] as the Indian lost to formidable Cyprus star in straight sets at the ATP Vancouver Open.

Prakash lost 4-6, 1-6 to third seed Baghdatis, a 2006 Australian Open [ Images ] finalist, in the second round match of the USD 1,00,000 hard court event.

Prakash and his Pakistani Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi [ Images ], seeded third, are already out of doubles event after suffering a shock opening match defeat 2-6, 2-6 to unseeded Kyu Tae Im of Korea and Marinko Matosevic of Australia [ Images ].

Harsh Mankad and his American partner David Martin had also lost their first round match 6-7(7), 2-6 to Israeli pair of Amir Hadad and Harel Levy.

Bhupathi-Knowles bow out of Legg Mason Classic

Meanwhile, Mahesh Bhupathi [ Images ] and his partner Mark Knowles [ Images ], seeded third, crashed out of the ATP Legg Mason Classic event after losing a tough quarterfinal match to Martin Damm [ Images ] and Robert Lindstedt [ Images ].

The Indo-Bahamian pair made a good start by annexing the first set but their opponents counter attacked and took away the match 3-6, 6-1, 16-14 in one hour and 26 minutes.

Bhupathi and Knowles broke the Czech-Swedish combination once and saved a breakpoint to go one set up.

However, Damm and Lindstedt refused to take the beating hands down and staged a brilliant comeback.

They broke Bhupathi and Knowles twice and saved the only breakpoint they faced to win the second set and drew parity.

The decisive super tie-break saw an intense fight, which the unseeded pair won to advance to semifinals.

Meanwhile, Somdev Devvarman [ Images ], who shocked world number 15 Marin Cilic [ Images ] yesterday, will face big serving Ivo Carlovic of Croatia [ Images ] in the singles third round.

Karlovic beat Germany's [ Images ] Rainer Schuettler [ Images ] 6-4, 7-5 in his second round match.