November 21, 1997
NEWS
MATCH REPORTS
STAT SHEET
DIARY
SLIDE SHOW
PEOPLE
DEAR REDIFF
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Paes-Bhupati go down to second seeds
Top seeds Mark Woodforde and Todd Woodbridge of Australia
struggled through consecutive tiebreakers before downing
the fourth-seeded American duo of Rick Leach and Jonathan Stark
at the $500,000 ATP Tour World Doubles Championship in
Hartford, Connecticut.
The Australian duo won the first set, 6-3, then split a pair of
tiebreakers -- 4-7 and 7-5 -- to narrowly advance to the third
round of the round-robin competition.
Meanwhile, second seeds Jacco Eltingh and Paul Haarhuis
of the Netherlands moved one step closer to a date with the
"Woodies," defeating the fifth-seeded Indian duo Mahesh Bhupathi
and Leander Paes. The Duth pair won the final three games of the first set
and had little trouble in the second set en route to a 6-3, 6-2
victory.
Sixth seeds Alex O'Brien of America and Canadian
Sebastian Lareau defeated the American pairing of Donald Johnson and
Francisco Montan, 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, after losing to Americans Rick
Leach and Jonathan Stark in three sets on Wednesday.
Ferreira and Galbraith, meanwhile, edged seventh seeds Mark Knowles of the
Bahamas and Canadian Daniel Nestor, 6-2, 6-7 (6-8), 7-5 for
their first victory in the tournament. The winning pair had, yesterday, gone down to the
fifth-seeded Indian tandem of Bhupathi and Paes,
7-5, 6-4.
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