India's [ Images ] Rohan Bopanna [ Images ] and his Pakistani partner Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi [ Images ] crashed out in straight sets from the doubles quarter-final of the Wimbledon [ Images ] in London [ Images ].

Bopanna and Qureshi lost 4-6, 6-7(3), 2-6 to Juergen Melzer of Austria and Germany's [ Images ] Philipp Petzschner.

Qureshi had become the first Pakistani player to reach the last eight of any Grand Slam event and the quarter-final appearance is also the best-ever Grand Slam performance for his partner Bopanna.

The first two sets witnessed close-fought battle with both the pairs holding their serve, apart from the break in the very first game by the European pair, while the second set went into a tie-break.

However, the Indo-Pak duo were nowhere in the competition in the third set as Bopanna dropped his serve twice -- in the third and seventh games -- to hand over the match to their rivals in an hour and 37 minutes.

Melzer and Petzschner will now be up against seventh seeds Wesley Moodie [ Images ] of South Africa [ Images ] and Belgian Dick Norman [ Images ], who beat second seeded American brothers pair of Bob and Mike Bryan [ Images ] 7-6(4), 7-6(5), 6-7(3), 7-5 in another quarter-final match.