Bjorkman sets up final goodbye

reuters.com     03-Jul-2008            

By Neil Maidment LONDON (Reuters) - In his last All England Club campaign, Jonas Bjorkman and partner Kevin Ullyett sent top seeds Bob and Mike Bryan crashing out of Wimbledon to reach the men's doubles final on Thursday. Seeded eighth, Bjorkman of Sweden and Zimbabwe's Ullyett ended the American brothers' hopes of a fourth consecutive Wimbledon doubles final, winning 7-6 5-7 7-6 7-6. The Bryans, who won at Wimbledon in 2006 and were runners-up in 2007 and 2005, fought back from one set down but were later undone by their opponents' tidy serve-and-volley play. Strong service games took the third and fourth sets to tie breaks and following two rain interruptions the players resumed with the Bryan brothers serving to stay in the match. They saved the first two match points but a Bjorkman smash set up a third and this time he... [read full story]                    


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