Beijing: Top Indian tennis player Rohan Bopanna, partnering American John Isner, lost his men's doubles first round in straight sets at the $2.7 million China Open here on Wednesday.


Rohan Bopanna. Pic/AFP

The Uruguayan-Serbian pairing of Pablo Cuevas and Viktor Troicki took just 54 minutes to easily beat Bopanna and Isner 6-4, 6-3 on the hard courts of the Beijing Olympic Green Tennis Center which was built for the 2008 Olympic Games.