India's Leander Paes and Canada's Daniel Nestor have lost to Andreas Seppi and Fabio Fognini of Italy 3-6, 7-5, 10-8 in their semi-final of the ATP China Open tournament in Beijing.
The first set was completed in 30 minutes, while the second took 39 minutes to complete and the match tiebreak was negotiated in 13 minutes.
The China Open is an ATP 500 event and will be followed by the Shanghai Rolex Masters.
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