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Bopanna-Raja in quarters of Tashkent Challenger
Tashkent, Oct 14 (IANS) India's Rohan Bopanna and Purav Raja swept aside Kazakhstan's Alexey Kedriouk and Yuri Schukin 6-1, 2-6, 10-8, to enter the doubles quarterfinals of the $1,25,000 Tashkent Challenger at the Olympic Tennis School here Tuesday.
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Pressure is on Bulgaria's Dimitrov
SOFIA (Reuters) - Grigor Dimitrov must safely negotiate the leap from junior to senior success if he is to become Bulgaria's first male champion, says tennis coach Julia Berberian.
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Borg, Navratilova's former coach jailed for sexually abusing girls
London, Oct.11 (ANI): A tennis coach who helped train Bjorn Borg and Martina Navratilova was jailed for five-and-a-half years for sexually abusing young hopefuls. Barry Butch Heffernan, 47, originally from Australia, molested the teenage girls week in, week out, using their dreams of stardom as a means of control, a court heard.
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Nalbandian, Nishikori roll through in Stockholm
Stockholm, Oct 11 (DPA) Argentine top seed David Nalbandian outclassed Spaniard Albert Montanes 6-4, 6-1 at the Stockholm Open tennis tournament to line up against two-time finalist Jarkko Nieminen in the semi-finals.
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Sania to lead Asia-Pacific in inter-continental tournament
Sania Mirza will spearhead the Asia-Pacific challenge in the World Team Challenge tournament in Hong Kong next year. The January 7-10 tournament, a new concept and warm-up competition for the Australian Open, will feature four teams representing Europe, Russia, the Americas and Asia-Pacific. Each team will be represented by three players who would compete in both singles and doubles, Hong Kong Tennis Patrons' Association president Ian Wade said on Thursday. There will be a semi-final draw for the teams, with each tie consisting of singles and doubles rubbers. The two teams which scores the most number of wins overall will ...
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