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Matthew Ebden of Australia hits a backhand return during his loss to Robin Söderling of Sweden in their quarterfinal match at the Brisbane International tennis tournament, in Brisbane on January 7, 2011.

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Brisbane International

Men's Singles - Quarterfinals
[2] A Roddick (USA) d [5] M Baghdatis (CYP) 62 63
K Anderson (RSA) d S Giraldo (COL) 26 63 64

Men's Singles - Second Round
[1] R Soderling (SWE) d M Berrer (GER) 63 76(7)
[Q] M Ebden (AUS) d [8] D Istomin (UZB) 64 64

Men's Doubles - Quarterfinals
[3] L Dlouhy (CZE) / P Hanley (AUS) d A Clement (FRA) / M Mertinak (SVK) 64 76(3)
[4] R Lindstedt (SWE) / H Tecau (ROU) d [WC] M Ebden (AUS) / P Luczak (AUS) 63 67(2) 13-11
P Petzschner (GER) / A Peya (AUT) d [WC] C Ball (AUS) / C Guccione (AUS) 62 62

Women's Singles - Quarterfinals
(4) Marion Bartoli (FRA) d. Barbora Zahlavova Strycova (CZE) 62 61
(5) Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (RUS) d. Lucie Safarova (CZE) 62 67(4) 63
Andrea Petkovic (GER) d. Jarmila Groth (AUS) 63 64
Petra Kvitova (CZE) d. Dominika Cibulkova (SVK) 60 64

Women's Doubles - Semifinals
Kleybanova/Pavlyuchenkova (RUS/RUS) d. (1) Black/Rodionova (ZIM/AUS) 63 75

Women's Doubles - Quarterfinals
Jans/Rosolska (POL/POL) d. Dulgheru/Savchuk (ROU/UKR) 61 64

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ASB Classic

Singles - Semifinals
(2) Yanina Wickmayer (BEL) d. Peng Shuai (CHN) 36 76(3) 75
Greta Arn (HUN) d. (4) Julia Goerges (GER) 76(3) 63

Doubles - Semifinals
Arvidsson/Erakovic (SWE/NZL) d. Cornet/Gallovits (FRA/ROU) 63 61