Men's doubles tennis reaches its high-water mark at the year-end ATP World Tour Finals in London, where the sport's top players take center stage each day.
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Trim, fit, full of life, he was midway through a doubles tennis game, casually walking with his partner from one end of the court to the other, when he dropped dead from a heart attack.
That was before Xiang in the 110m hurdles, before Meng Guanliang and Yang Wenjun paddled their canoe to victory in the 500m, before gold went to Xing Huina in the 10, 000m, before gold to the ladies volleyball team and before Tang Li and Tian Tian Sun won the doubles tennis.
Golding took gold in the boys' tennis doubles after he and Czech partner Jiri Vesely triumphed in straight sets.
Another gold medal was added Friday when Wang Nan and Zhang Yining converted the second of five match points to defeat the South Korean penhold pair Seok Eun-mi and Lee Eun-sil 11-9 11-7 11-6 11-6 in the women's table tennis doubles.
Top seeds Chen Qi and Ma Lin of China beat Ko Lai-chak and Li Ching of Hong Kong 11-6 11-9 7-11 11-8 8-11 11-5 to take the men's doubles gold in table tennis and keep China on track for another Olympic title sweep in Athens.
Wimbledon champion Roger Federer played faultless tennis to defeat doubles partner Max Mirnyi 6-2 7-6 and reach the last four.
"I always wanted to compete at the highest level in tennis and just now that is in doubles, " he said.
Both Murdoch and Semel say they'll play Milchan only if they can grab his wife and former tennis pro Amanda as a partner in doubles.
The two played mixed doubles well enough in high school that Gordon once thought tennis was his best shot at a college scholarship.
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Among other sports stars, he said in an interview that he had worked with Sara Errani, an Italian tennis player who on June 8 won the women's doubles title at the French Open and a day later played in the women's single final only to lose to Maria Sharapova.
One is the bad boy of tennis, who holds the record for most consecutive weeks ranked Number One in doubles.
The communal areas are filled with fun: table tennis here, a pool table there, and there is a fine rooftop bar which doubles as the hostel's restaurant.
Ramamurthy has entered singles and mixed doubles in the USTA Eastern Sectional qualifying tournament from June 9-15 at the USTA Billie Jean King Tennis Center, where the U.S. Open is played starting in late August.
The breakout for Chinese women tennis came in 2004, when little-known duo Sun Tiantian and Li Ting snatched gold in the doubles at the Athens Olympics.
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