India's campaign came to an end in the men's doubles when Paes and his Austrian partner Jurgen Melzer crashed out in the second round.
Seeded ninth, Paes and Melzer fought hard before going down 7-5 4-6 6-7(6) against unseeded Uruguan-Argentine duo of Pablo Cuevas and Horacio Zeballos in little less than two-and-a-half hours at the Roland Garros.
The other Indians in the men's doubles fray, Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna, who were seeded fourth, had already lost opening round to Polish pair of Tomasz Bednarek and Jerzy Janowicz.
If that was not enough, Rohan Bopanna and Australia's Ashleigh Barty were also shown the door in the opening round of the mixed doubles event. Bopanna-Barty lost 4-6 4-6 to Czech pair of Lucie Hradecka and Frantisek Cermak.
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