Indian Davis Cupper Rohan Bopanna [ Images ] and his partner Jeff Coetzee crashed out of the $531,100 ATP SAP Open after suffering a straight-set defeat in the first round in San Jose.

The unseeded Indo-South African pair lost 1-6, 4-6 to the Australian duo of Carsten Ball and Stephen Huss on Wednesday.

The Indian did not get any ranking point and had to be content with $1400 after splitting the prize money with his South African partner.

Bopanna and his Pakistani partner Asiam-ul-Haq Qureshi had won their maiden ATP title together last week in Johannesburg.

Meanwhile, Prakash Amritraj [ Images ] and his American partner Brendon Evans were ousted from the Italy [ Images ] Challenger event after losing the quarter-final to third seeds Daniele Bracciali of Italy and Jonathan Erlich of Israel.

The Indo-American pair lost 0-6, 6-7 (3) in the last-eight stage of the euro 425,000 event.

Amritraj and Evans got 17 ranking points each and split euro 540 between them for making the quarter-finals.

Amritraj had exited from the singles competition after losing to local wild card Marco Crugnola in the first round.