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Men’s Tennis champions : 29 Week 2013

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fabio fognini 29 Week 2013

FOGNINI

BEATS

DELBONIS

TO WIN

HAMBURG FINAL

FOR SECOND TITLE

HAMBURG, Germany — Fabio Fognini saved three match points before beating Argentine qualifier Federico Delbonis 4-6, 7-6 (8), 6-2 Sunday to win the German Tennis Championships for his second title in two weeks.

The 12th-seeded Italian extended his winning run to 10 matches. He won his first career title last week in Stuttgart, Germany, also on clay.

Fognini trailed 4-1 in the second set after losing four straight games following a long discussion with officials over a warning. The Italian changed his racket after breaking a string, but took a long time going to the bench and was given a warning. He then engaged in a long argument with the chair umpire and tournament supervisor and was unable to keep his game together, still muttering during changeovers.

But Fognini finally settled down and rallied to level at 4-4. Delbonis squandered…

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women’s Tennis champions : 29 Week 2013

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serena williams 29 Week 2013

SERENA WILLIAMS

BEATS

LARSSON

TO WIN

SWEDISH OPEN

BASTAD, Sweden — Serena Williams won her 53rd WTA title by beating Johanna Larsson 6-4, 6-1 in the final of the Swedish Open on Sunday.

The 24-year-old Swede broke to lead 3-1 in the first set before Williams fought back to 3-3. Larsson advanced to 4-3 before caving in to the American’s strong serve and losing the next three games.

Williams dominated the second set, breaking Larsson’s serve twice.

“It was really good to come here and win after a disappointing Wimbledon so hopefully this confidence will help me for the rest of the year,” said Williams, who lost in the fourth round at Wimbledon to Sabine Lisicki.

Larsson said “at the crucial points I wasn’t really present, which was a shame.”

Williams also defeated 76th-ranked Larsson in their only previous match in the Fed Cup earlier this year.

29 week 2013

MEUSBURGER

BEATS

HLAVACKOVA

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path of love

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Fragrant Breeze

O beautiful wine-bearer, bring forth the cup and put it to my lips
Path of love seemed easy at first, what came was many hardships.

With its perfume, the morning breeze unlocks those beautiful locks
The curl of those dark ringlets, many hearts to shreds strips.

In the house of my Beloved, how can I enjoy the feast
Since the church bells call the call that for pilgrimage equips.

With wine color your robe, one of the old Magi’s best tips
Trust in this traveler’s tips, who knows of many paths and trips.

The dark midnight, fearful waves, and the tempestuous whirlpool
How can he know of our state, while ports house his unladen ships.

I followed my own path of love, and now I am in bad repute
How can a secret remain veiled, if from every tongue it drips?

If His presence you seek, Hafiz, then why yourself…

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When If Meets Must

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ram H singhal Happiness notes

When If Meets Must


If we can fight together, we must strive together

If we can play together, we must pray together 

If we can plan together, we must stand together 

If we can cry together, we must try together 

We must strive together, if we can fight together 

We must pray together, if we can play together 

We must stand together, if we can plan together 

We must try together, if we can cry together 

The future of man is built on a plan 

Of working together whenever we can

So “if” must stand so tall 

And “must” alone, cannot fall 

For together, forever we bring 

The best, the good of it all.

Poem by : James Weldon Lane 

Image credits : JuAn CaRLoS

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women’s Tennis champions : 28 Week 2013

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VINCI OF ITALY

BEATS

TOP-SEEDED ERRANI

FOR PALERMO VICTORY

Roberta Vinci of Italy beat top-seeded compatriot Sara Errani 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 Sunday to win the Italiacom Open for the first time.

The second-seeded Vinci was broken in the first game but she broke back twice before serving out the opening set.

Errani, who won this tournament in 2008 and 2012, seemed to recover and raced into a 5-1 lead in the second set before levelling the match.

But Vinci stormed into a 4-0 lead in the final set and then held off the sixth-ranked Errani’s comeback attempt to secure her ninth career victory.

The win also ends a streak of five successive victories for Errani over her close friend, with whom she also tops the world doubles rankings.

HALEP

BEATS

MEUSBURGER

IN THREE SETS

TO WIN

HUNGARIAN GP

BUDAPEST, Hungary — Simona Halep won her third WTA tournament of the…

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Men’s Tennis champions : 28 Week 2013

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MAHUT

DEFEATS

HEWITT

IN FINAL OF

NEWPORT

NEWPORT, R.I. — Nicolas Mahut certainly knows a little something about being on court for a long time. Judging by his smile, it was a lot better feeling this time.

The 31-year old Frenchman captured the title at the Hall of Fame Tennis Championships on Sunday, beating Lleyton Hewitt of Australia 5-7, 7-5, 6-3.

Mahut, a 2007 Newport finalist and a wild-card entrant this week, won his second career ATP title. The other came at ‘s-Hertogenbosch last month.

Mahut lost the longest match in tennis history three years ago, dropping the fifth set to John Isner 70-68 at Wimbledon in a match that lasted 11 hours, 5 minutes. A display with items used in that match is located a few hundred yards away in the International Tennis Hall of Fame.

FOGNINI

RALLIES TO BEAT

KOHLSCHREIBER

AND WIN

MERCEDES CUP

STUTTGART, Germany — Fabio…

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