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Aus Open: Somdev-Prakash crash out

January 22, 2010 08:33 IST

India's [ Images ] Somdev Devvarman [ Images ] and Prakash Amritraj [ Images ] crashed out of the Australian Open [ Images ] with a disappointing 6-1, 6-3 loss to Simon Aspelin of Sweden and Australian Paul Hanley [ Images ] at Melbourne [ Images ] Park on Friday.

The Aspelin-Hanley pair dominated the game right from the outset, so much so that, the Indian pair didn't get a break point in the entire match.

Somdev and Amritraj committed many unforced errors, and never looked in the groove. While, Aspelin, a former doubles winner here, brought all his experience, to move into the third round of the Australian Open.

Sania Mirza [ Images ], who lost here singles campaign, earlier on Wednesday, starts her doubles campaign with Spain's Virginia Ruano Pascual, as the duo takes on Switzerland's [ Images ] Timea Bacsinszky and Italy's [ Images ] Tathiana Garbin, later in the day.