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Article: SW19 diary
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- July 3, 2009
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Britons go for a Burton after marathon misery
Imagine finishing a marathon thinking you've crossed the line
just ahead of your closest rival. You celebrate for a good five
seconds. Then someone tells you that you didn't win, and you have to
do the last few hundred metres again. This time you lose. You'd be
gutted.
The tennis equivalent of that happened yesterday to two Britons
in the second round of the boy's doubles, and the SW19 Diary can
testify that they were utterly miserable. George Morgan, 16, and
Lewis Burton, 17, believed they were robbed of a famous win.
In one of the longest boys' doubles matches on record, they
eventually lost to Carlos Boluda-Purkiss of Spain and David Souto of ...