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Beijing Olympics / Tennis hopes dashed as Israeli swimmers break records
By Haaretz Service
Tags: Beijing Olympics, judo 

The Israeli Olympic tennis team saw its chances of winning a medal dwindle on Tuesday, as women's singles players Shahar Peer and Tzipi Obziler and the men's doubles team of Andy Ram and Yoni Erlich all lost their matches.

Peer was defeated by her Russian opponent in the second round of competition on Tuesday, losing the first set 6-3 and the second set in a tiebreak 7-6.

Obziler lost to her Ukranian opponent who took the first set 7-5 and the second set 6-4.
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Ram and Erlich's match against their French opponents was stopped Monday due to heavy rain, but the pair ultimately lost 6-4, 6-4.

Two Israeli swimmers broke Israeli records on Tuesday. Tom Beeri came in second in 200 meters breaststroke heat, and Nimrod Shapira Bar-Or also came in second in 100 meters freestyle heat.

Meanwhile, Israeli windsurfer Shahar Zubari continues to gain momentum. After his victory in the first men's windsurfing race on Monday, he held on to his first place position when he came in first in Tuesday's race - the third out of a total of 20.

In women's sailing action, Vered Buskila and Nika Kornitzky finished their third round race in first place, and are now ranking fourth overall. Their fourth race will take place later on Tuesday.

Judoka Alice Schlesinger knocked out Games

Israeli judoka Alice Schlesinger's Olympic bid was thwarted on Tuesday in the repechage round of the women's under-63kg competition where she was defeated by her Slovenian opponent.

Earlier on Tuesday, Schlesinger suffered a seemingly effortless defeat by the experienced French judoka Lucille Decrosse, who gained an advantage point two minutes into the round, performing a yuko to win 11:0.

Schlesinger followed in the footsteps of Israeli judoka Gal Yekutiel, who also succeeded in reaching the repechage round, although failed to take home a bronze medal.

Repechage is a practice among ladder competitions that allows participants who failed to meet qualifying standards by a small margin to continue into the next round.

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