Leander Paes and Lukas Dlouhy win French Open doubles final
8 June 2009

PARIS (AFP) — India's Leander Paes celebrated a ninth Grand Slam doubles title before thanking former playing partner and 20-time Wimbledon champion Martina Navratilova for boosting his career.

Paes teamed with Lukas Dlouhy of the Czech Republic to capture the French Open title with a 3-6, 6-3, 6-2 win over Wesley Moodie of South Africa and Belgium's Dick Norman.

It was 35-year-old Paes's fifth men's Grand Slam men's doubles title having won twice here in 1999 and 2001 with compatriot Mahesh Bhupathi, 1999 Wimbledon with Bhupathi and the 2006 US Open with Martin Damm.

He has also won four Grand Slam mixed doubles titles, including the 2003 Wimbledon and Australian Open trophies with Navratilova.

Paes and Dlouhy first teamed up at Roland Garros last year, losing in the last 16 to eventual champions Pablo Cuevas and Luis Horna.

They then finished runners-up to Mike and Bob Bryan in the 2008 US Open final.

"We started playing together at Roland Garros last year. We lost then to the champions so we made it a point that we would come back and try and win it this year," added Paes.

Junior doubles winners crowned at Roland Garros
8 June 2009

Croatia’s Marin Draganja and Dino Marcan, and the Romanian/Thai combination of Elena Bogdan and Noppawan Lertcheewakarn tasted glory at the French Open on Saturday as they won their respective junior doubles titles.

Draganja and Marcan cruised to the boys’ title with an impressive 63 62 win over fourth seeds Guilherme Clezar of Brazil and Liang-Chi Huang of Taipei of Taipei.

Second seeds Bogdan and Lertcheewakarn edged out Timea Babos of Hungary and Briton Heather Watson, the No. 3 seeds, 63 36 10 (8) to win the girls' trophy.

Bogdan and Lertcheewakarn lost the first five games against Babos and Watson but bounced back well to win in a deciding match tiebreak.

The victory gave Bogdan her first grand-slam title while for world champion Lertcheewakarn it was her second, following on from her US Open doubles triumph last September.

Bogdan and Lertcheewakarn made amends for their early exits in the singles event, but they must have feared the worst when they fell 5-0 down in steady rain.

Third seeds Babos and Watson held off a mini-fightback from the No. 2 seeds to take the opening set but Bogdan and Lertcheewakarn then found their form to romp through the second set.

Bogdan and Lertcheewakarn led 4-1 and 8-5 in the deciding match tiebreak, but Babos and Watson pulled them back to 9-8, saving one match point, before Babos sent a backhand long to hand the No.2 seeds victory.

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Asia/Oceania Final Qualifying of World Junior Tennis underway
19 May 2009

The four spots for the team finals in Prostejov were at stake this week at the Asia/Oceania boys' final qualifying for World Junior Tennis in Kuching, Malaysia, where 16 teams were competing for a place in the Finals.

The four teams that qualified for the World Finals are Australia, Chinese Taipei, Japan and Uzbekistan.

The four teams that will qualify for the Girls World Finals are Australia, China, Japan and Korea.

• Final Standings Boys
• Final Standings Girls

Asian duo bags Doubles Title in Rome.
15 May 2009

ROME, Italy - Hsieh Su-Wei and Peng Shuai won their third and biggest doubles title on the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour at the Internazionali BNL d'Italia, edging Daniela Hantuchova and Ai Sugiyama in the final, 75 76(5).

Chinese Taipei's Hsieh and China's Peng, the No.7 seeds, didn't face a seeded team until the final due to a rash of upsets on the bottom half of the draw. The duo took titles previously at Bali last fall and Sydney earlier this year; Hsieh now has six Tour doubles titles to her name while Peng has five.

Hantuchova and Sugiyama, who are looking for their first title together since 2006, had their own phenomenal week as the No.5 seeds, most notably beating co-world No.1s Cara Black and Liezel Huber, the No.1 seeds, for the third time this year (also achieving the feat in the quarters in Brisbane and quarters at the Australian Open) in the quarterfinals and fourth-seeded Nuria Llagostera Vives and María José Martínez Sánchez in the semifinals.

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