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No problem with Todd: Mahesh
When Mahesh Bhupathi and Australian Todd Woddbridge teamed up early this year, they were supposed to be 8216;the pair8217;. Only six month...
Written by MICKY AIGNER
Pune | July 2, 2005 12:00 AM IST
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When Mahesh Bhupathi and Australian Todd Woddbridge teamed up early this year, they were supposed to be 8216;the pair8217;. Only six months later, the Indo-Aussie duo will no longer share a court as Woodbridge unexpectedly announced his retirement.
8220;No hard feelings,8221; Bhupathi may have said but the decision for the Indian has come as an insult to injury- it came after their third round loss at Wimbledon. While Bhupathi honours Woodbridge8217;s decision, with a 8220;life goes on,8221; verdict, the Aussie, according to Bhupathi, 8220;was pretty upset and needed to be cajoled.8221;
Having won three consecutive finals at Wimbledon 8212; all with Jonas Bjorkman 8212; Woodbridge8217;s loss seemed to hurt him a lot. Bhupathi8217;s response to this: 8220;Well that8217;s his Woodbridge problem, winning and losing are part of any sport.8221;
The 34-year-old Woodbridge, with 83 doubles titles under his belt including 16 Grand Slams, was quite keen to add the men8217;s doubles title to make it a Perfect 10 at Wimbledon, before signing out.
8220;Everybody has expectations,8221; Bhupathi informs, 8220;but as far as the partnership was concerned, I never had a problem.8221;
Incidentally, Woodbridge, was quoted saying that his partnership hadn8217;t worked out quite as well as he planned.
Mahesh, Mary win
Mahesh Bhupathi continued his successful run with new partner Mary Pierce as they beat the all-Belgian 12th seeded team of Kim Clijsters and Olivier Rochus in the quarterfinals 6-1, 7-5. They await the winners of the match between Todd Woodbridge 038; Samantha Stosur and Jonas Bjorkman 038; Lisa Raymond.
Shokeen out
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In the boys8217; doubles, though, Vivek Shokeen and his partner Abdullah Magdas lost to Samuel Groth and Andrew Kennaugh 3-6, 2-6.
Semis suspended
Play in the men8217;s semi-final between Andy Roddick and Thomas Johansson was suspended because of rain on Friday. Roddick was leading 6-5 in the first set on serve.
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