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DUBAI - Serbia's Nenad Zimonjic and Canada's Daniel Nestor reached the final of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships in the doubles competition with a hard-fought win over the all-German pairing of Daniel Brands/Florian Mayer 7-6 (7-4), 7-6 (10-8) on Friday.

DUBAI - Serbia's Nenad Zimonjic and Canada's Daniel Nestor advanced to the semifinals of the doubles event at the ATP tournament in Dubai on Thursday.

Zimonjic and Nestor beat Roberto Bautista Agut and Igor Sijsling, a Spanish-Dutch duo, 6-3, 6-2.

DUBAI - Serbia's Novak Djokovic advanced to the semifinals of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships after his quarterfinal opponent Mikhail Youzhny of Russia withdrew from the tournament due to illness.

In Friday's semifinals, the world no. 2 will face the winner of the quarterfinal match between Roger Federer of Switzerland and Lukas Rosol of the Czech Republic.

DUBAI - Serbia's best tennis player Novak Djokovic advanced to the quarterfinals of the ATP tournament in Dubai late on Wednesday.

Djokovic notched up an easy 6-1, 6-3 win against world no. 51 Roberto Bautista Agut of Spain.

Next up for Djokovic is a match against Russia's Mikhail Youzhny, who defeated British number three James Ward earlier today by 6-1, 7-6 (7-3).

DUBAI - Serbia's best-ranked tennis player Novak Djokovic opened his title defense at the ATP tournament in Dubai with a straight-sets victory over Denis Istomin of Uzbekistan (6-3, 6-3).

In the second round on Wednesday, Djokovic will face world no. 51, Spaniard Roberto Bautista Agut, who defeated Adrian Ungur of Romania by 6-1, 6-3 on Monday.

DUBAI - Serbia's Nenad Zimonjic and Canada's Daniel Nestor have reached the quarterfinals in the men's doubles category of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships.

They beat Omar Awadhy and Hamad Abbas Janahi from the United Arab Emirates 6-4 6-0 on Tuesday.

The prize fund for the tournament is USD 2.3 million.

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DUBAI - Serbia's best-ranked tennis player Novak Djokovic and Spain's Carlos Gomez-Herrera lost their first round match in the doubles competition of the ATP tournament in Dubai on Monday to the Polish-Czech pairing of Tomasz Bednarek/Lukas Dlouhi by 7-5, 1-6, 10-5.

Bednarek and Dlouhi will next face the winners of Lukas Rosol/Andreas Seppi - Mariusz FyrstenbergMarcin Matkowski.

DUBAI - Serbia's Jelena Jankovic has failed to reach the semifinals of the WTA tournament in Dubai, since she lost to Serena Williams from the US 6-2 6-2 on Thursday.

This marked Williams' 9th victory in 13 matches against Jankovic.

Williams will next face the winner of the match between France's Alize Cornet and Spain's Carla Suarez Navaro.

DUBAI - Serbia's Jelena Jankovic beat Czech Republic's Lucy Safarova 7-5 6-4 on Wednesday to reach the quarterfinals of the WTA tournament in Dubai.

The match lasted 1 hour and 42 minutes, with Jankovic coming out on top after a great struggle and a lot of ups and downs in her game.

She will now face Serena Williams from the US, who is the top seed in Dubai.

DUBAI - Serbian tennis player Ana Ivanovic failed to reach the quarterfinals of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships, losing her second-round match on Wednesday to Venus Williams of the U.S. by 6-2, 6-1.

Williams easily notched her ninth win against Ivanovic in just 56 minutes.