Top-seeded Bryans suffer shock third round defeat in Melbourne


  • Tennis
  • Monday, 20 Jan 2014

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - The world's top-ranked doubles pair, Bob and Mike Bryan, suffered their earliest Australian Open exit in more than a decade on Monday when they lost 7-6(9) 6-4 to American Eric Butorac and South Africa's Raven Klaasen in the third round.

The American twins, who have won the title six times, led 4-0 in the first-set tiebreak before being overhauled and were then broken once in the second set.

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