Tennis News -
At The Championships Wimbledon 2008,

[SF] (9) Lukas Dlouhy (CZE)/ Leander Paes (IND) l (2) Daniel Nestor (CAN)/ Nenad Zimonjic (SRB) 67(4) 64 16 64 6-8

First 2 sets were closely fought as Zimo and Nestor won first set tie-break on single mini-break ... This match also had heated arguments between old partners, Zimo and Lee ... Zimo was more vocal on the court.

Today match started from 3-3 in the 4th set, Lee and Lukas won the set breaking 10th game ... In the 5th set, Lee/ Lukas saved 2 bps in first game of the set, they also had chance of breaking Zimo/ Nestor's serve in 6th game but they couldn't managed to convert single bp ... Atlast Zimo/ Nestor broke their service game on 13th game and served out to clinch place in Wimbledon final.
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At $75K+H Dublin Challenger, Ireland (Artificial Grass corts)

[QF] Prakash Amritraj (IND,350) l (6) Robert Smeets (AUS,167) 06 36

Doubles -
[SF] Prakash Amritraj (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) bt Michel Koning (NED)/ Matwe Middelkoop (NED) 46 76(4) 10(5)
[F] Prakash Amritraj (IND)/ Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK) vs (4) Jonathan Marray (GBR)/ Frederik Nielsen (DEN)

After rain these artificial grass courts become soggy and makes game slow due to heavy balls ... Yesterday Kash didn't adjust to that and his challenge was over rather tamely against Smeets.

But in doubles Aisam and Kash r in the final ... Go guys now get doubles title.
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At $50K Boston Challenger, MA, USA

[R2] (5) RAO Sunitha (IND,152) bt (Q) BRODSKY Gail (USA,411) 63 75
[QF] (5) RAO Sunitha (IND,152) vs (2) DUBOIS Stephanie (CAN,100)

In start of her hard court season Sunitha faced 2 weak opponents, good to see that she take advantage of it to score victories ... First couple of weeks its difficult to all players in transition on hard courts after 2 months of clay and grass courts events.
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At $10K USA F16 Futures, Pittsburgh, PA

[R2] (7) Somdev Dev Varman (IND,793) bt (Q) Roy Kalmanovich (USA,UNR) 61 63

Somi is taming his opponents ... He is belong to challenger level but he need more ranking points to play their qualifying ... So title win here is very important for that decision ... Go Somi.
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At $10k Damascus Futures, Syria

[QF] (6) Shivika BURMAN (IND,1044) l (Q)YEDIGARYAN Tatevik (ARM,UNR) 16 36