Tennis Tennis Paes, Raja crash out of Auckland ATP classic From the brink of victory, Paes-Raja duo crashed out to Marcin Matkowski of Poland and Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi of Pakistan in the doubles pre-quarterfinals. Team Sportstar 09 January, 2018 22:00 IST Leander Paes (right) with partner Purav Raja during the men's doubles first round at the ATP 250 World Tour event Tata Open Maharashtra tennis championship. (file image) - R. Ragu Team Sportstar 09 January, 2018 22:00 IST Wild card entrants Leander Paes and Purav Raja had a tough outing in the $561,345 ASB Classic ATP Tour event in Auckland, as they stumbled at the brink of victory and were beaten 6-7(4), 7-6(8), 10-7 by Marcin Matkowski of Poland and Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi of Pakistan in thedoubles pre-quarterfinals.In the $50,000 Bangkok Challenger, Sasi Kumar Mukund went down fighting in three sets to seventh seed Yusuke Takahashi of Japan while qualifier Sidharth Rawat lost to local lad WishayaTrongcharoenchaikul.In the ITF Futures in China, Manish Sureshkumar had a hard earned victory over Rhett Purcell of New Zealand in the first round, while qualifier Nitin Kumar Sinha bowed out, in three sets.The results:$561,345 ATP, Auckland, New ZealandDoubles (pre-quarterfinals): Marcin Matkowski (Pol) & Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (Pak) bt Leander Paes & Purav Raja 6-7(4), 7-6(8), 10-7.$50,000 Challenger, Bangkok, ThailandSingles (first round): Yusuke Takahashi (Jpn) bt Sasi Kumar Mukund 6-2, 5-7, 6-0; Wishaya Trongcharoenchaikul (Tha) bt Sidharth Rawat 7-6(3), 6-3.$15,000 ITF men, Anning, ChinaSingles (first round): Goran Markovic (Srb) bt Nitin Kumar Sinha 7-5, 1-6, 6-3; Manish Sureshkumar bt Rhett Purcell (Nzl) 5-7, 6-3, 7-6(5).Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Tyler Lu (US) & Issei Okamura (Jpn) bt NIitn Kumar Sinha & Manish Sureshkumar 7-6(5), 6-3. Read more stories on Tennis. For more updates, follow Sportstar on :