Bhupathi-Knowles eliminated in men's doubles

London: India's Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna lost their respective men's doubles matches in the second round of the Wimbledon Championships here Thursday.

The fourth seeded pair of Bhupathi and Mark Knowles of the Bahamas went down 5-7, 2-6, 6-7 (4-7) to German Philipp Petzschner and Alexander Peya of Austria.

In the other match, Bopanna and his Pakistani partner Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi lost 2-6, 4-6, 2-6 to Spaniards Marcel Granollers-Pujol and Santiago Ventura.