Benidorm, Spain  - Reading a lot can be dangerous, and being too smart can lead a person to unhappiness: that is why Serb tennis player-cum-intellectual Janko Tipsarevic hit the brakes.

"I realized that I was reading too much, starting to doubt myself, life, my profession and tennis. I stopped a bit," Tipsarevic told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa in an interview ahead of the Davis Cup tie against Spain from Friday.

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.

Rik De Voest of South Africa and Dmitry Tursunov