Somdev Devvarman ousted from Lexington Challenger doubles

Europe News.Net
Wednesday 23rd July, 2008 (IANS)

India's Somdev Devvarman and his American partner Rylan Rizza went down fighting to Dominican Republic's Victor Estrella and Mexican Santiago Gonzalez in the opening round of the $50,000 ATP Challenger here.

Estrella-Santiago bested the Indo-American pair in the super-tiebreak 6-2, 3-6, 10-6 at the hard court event Tuesday.

They now advance to meet second seeds Harel Levy of Israel and American Jim Thomas who beat qualifiers Canadian Bruno Gostinelli and American Bradley Cox 6-4, 6-2.

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