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Top players hit stumbling blocks

By Ravi Ubha
Special to ESPN.com

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

The big names remain alive, albeit tenuously, at the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells. Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer are still on course, however, to meet in the California desert in what would be their first head-to-head in a hard-court Masters final in four years. Reeling with the habitual absence of the Williams sisters, the women's draw took a further hit when sprightly Serb Jelena Jankovic and workmanlike Russian Elena Dementieva bid adieu early. The first week produced plenty of oth ...

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