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Paes’ semifinal match stopped due to bad light

Ninth seed Indo-Czech pair, Leander Paes and Lukas Dlouhy were tied 3-3 games all in the fourth set after trailing 1-2 against second seeded Canadian-Serbian pair of Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonjic before play was suspended for the day due to bad light in the semi-final of the Wimbledon men’s doubles.

The final scoreline when match was stopped was 7-6 (7-4), 4-6, 6-1 and 3-3 in favour of Daniel Nestor and Nenad Zimonjic. The first set was battled hard by both the opponents as it got strecthed to the tie-breaker where Nestor-Zimonjic prevailed over Peas-Dlouhy 7-4 in the tie-breaker. However the Indo-Czech pair bounced back as they clinched the second set 6-4 to level the tie one all but to their dismay their higher seeded opponents rose to the occasion and sealed the third set 6-1 in their favout in just 24 minutes to take 2-l lead.

Both the pairs will start afresh and come out hard all cylinders firing on Friday to make it to the Wimbledon final.

Tags: doubles, leander paes, lukas dlouhy, Wimbledon 2008