Basel: Indo-Romanian tennis pair of Rohan Bopanna and Florin Mergea suffered their second straight first round loss when they went down to Austrian-Brazilian combine of Alexander Peya and Bruno Soares in the men's doubles first round of the Swiss Indoors here.

Peya and Soares took just an hour and two minutes on Monday to oust Bopanna and Mergea 4-6, 6-1, 10-8 from the 1.5 million-euro tournament, being held on the indoor hard courts of the St. Jakobshalle.