London: Top-seeded pair of Mahesh Bhupathi and Elena Likhovtseva could pose only a feeble challenge to their unseeded American opponents Bob Bryan and Lindsay Davenport before crashing out of the mixed doubles competition of the Wimbledon Grand Slam Championship.

The Indo-Russian pair lost 2-6 4-6 in the quarterfinals played at the Centre Court yesterday (July 1, 2004).

Bhupathi-Likhovtseva had defeated 15th seeded Daniel Nestor of Canada and Lina Krasnoroutskaya of Russia 6-3 7-6 (7-3) in their third round match.

Meanwhile, Leander Paes and Martina Navratilova were waiting to complete their third round match which has been suspended twice since June 30.

Paes-Navratilova, seeded ninth and playing against sixth seeds Wayne Black and Cara Black of Zimbabwe, were stranded at 6-7 (7-9), 7-6 (7-5), 10-10.

The winner of this match will meet Rainer Schuttler of Germany and Barbara Schett of Austria in the quarterfinals.

In the boys' doubles, India's Karan Rastogi and Chu-Huan Yi of Chinese Taipei were sent packing by second seeded American duo of Brenden Evans and Scott Oudesema in the quarterfinals.

Rastogi and Yi lost 2-6 2-6 to the higher-seeded pair.