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Brunstrom/Lipsky Save 7 M.P. In Kuala Lumpur

Paes, Bhupathi© PTT Thailand OpenTop seeds Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi were among first-round casualties on Monday.

Johan Brunstrom and Scott Lipsky saved seven match points to prevail against Santiago Gonzalez and Travis Rettenmaier 6-3, 1-6, 20-18 on Monday at the Malaysian Open, Kuala Lumpur 2010.

Brunstrom and Lipsky, who are making their partnership debut this week, fought from down 6-9 in the Match Tie-break and saved four more match points at 9-10, 11-12, 13-14 and 15-16. They clinched the win over this year’s Belgrade champions on their sixth match point opportunity.

At the PTT Thailand Open, an ATP World Tour 250 tennis tournament in Bangkok, top seeds Indians Mahesh Bhupathi and Leander Paes suffered a first-round loss to the German-Croatian team of Daniel Brands and Ivan Dodig 7-6(5), 6-7(5), 10-4.

Bhupathi and Paes, who were making their team’s first ATP World Tour main draw appearance since 2008 at Indianapolis, will be representing India at the upcoming Commonwealth Games, to be held from 3-14 October in Delhi. The veterans recently helped India retain its status in the Davis Cup World Group by winning the doubles rubber against Brazil in the play-offs.

In a meeting between Russian-Thai wild card duos, Dmitry Tursunov and Kittipong Wachiramanowong defeated Teymuraz Gabashvili and Danai Udomchoke 6-4, 7-5.

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