London: Third seeds Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna crashed out of the Aegon Championships after suffering a straight-set defeat at the hands of top seeds Bob and Mike Bryan in the semifinals here.

Rafael Nadal had to dig deep to reach the quarterfinals at Queen's with a hard-fought 6-3, 5-7, 6-1 win against Czech veteran Radek Stepanek on Thursday.

Few players have made the switch from clay to