Stockholm - While tennis players from Israel and Sweden prepare for their upcoming three-day Davis Cup tie, organizers of a protest against the event said they hoped to gather more than 8,000 participants.
The umbrella group, Stop the Match, said Wednesday it was committed to a peaceful protest on Saturday - before the doubles match - near the arena in the southern Swedish city Malmo.
Dubai, UAE - Dubai officials will make an official protest to the WTA after being slapped with a 300,000-dollar fine for the UAE visa exclusion of Israeli Shahar Peer at the Barclays Championships this month.
Owner Dubai Duty Free is also concerned over an unprecedented requirement that the event lay down a 2-million-dollar bond to make sure that the visa problem is not repeated in 2010.
Pint-size Apurva Ringangaonkar earned a hard fought 7-6 (7-5) win over Ayman Khan to move ahead, in the 16th edition of RCBC Junior Open Tennis Tournament (under-10) at the club court here on Monday.
The game which witnessed baseline encounter saw the players tied 6-6 for the enforcement of the tie-breaker. Khan, played some accurate strokes to take a crucial 4-2 lead in the tie-breaker. But, Ringangaonkar raised his game dramatically and came back to take a 5-3 lead.
With still two points in favour, Khan was almost sure about his win. However, it was a couple of drop shots from Ringangaonkar which took the match away from Khan. Boosted with the confidence Ringangaonkar was quick to finish the match with 7-5 score.
Washington, Mar 2: Tennis legend Boris Becker is all set to exchange wedding vows with his girlfriend Sharlely "Lilly" Kerssenberg on June 12.
In an interview for a German TV show, the three-times Wimbledon champion revealed that he and his girlfriend were planning to wed in St. Moritz, Switzerland, the swank ski resort town.
"We''ve been together for nearly four years and had our ups and downs. ... Last summer I lost my way, but she took me back again," People magazine quoted him as saying.
Dubai, UAE - Novak Djokovic gave his confidence a huge boost on Saturday as he tuned up for next week's Davis Cup tie with Spain with a trophy at the Barclays Championships 7-5, 6-3 over David Ferrer.
The Serb top seed said that prior to the upcoming challenge on clay in front of a Spanish crowd of 15,000 in Benidorm, he feels his game is lifting after securing his first title of a slow-starting 2009 season.
Djokovic won an event which was decimated by late withdrawals, including former winners Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer.
Stockholm - While tennis players from Israel and Sweden prepare for their upcoming three-day Davis Cup tie, organizers of a protest against the event said they hoped to gather more than 8,000 participants.
Dubai, UAE - Dubai officials will make an official protest to the WTA after being slapped with a 300,000-dollar fine for the UAE visa exclusion of Israeli Shahar Peer at the Barclays Championships this month.
Washington, Mar 2: Tennis legend Boris Becker is all set to exchange wedding vows with his girlfriend Sharlely "Lilly" Kerssenberg on June 12.
Rik De Voest of South Africa and Dmitry Tursunov 
Dubai, UAE - Novak Djokovic gave his confidence a huge boost on Saturday as he tuned up for next week's Davis Cup tie with Spain with a trophy at the Barclays Championships 7-5, 6-3 over David Ferrer.
