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No Indian will be seen in action on the final weekend at Wimbledon after Sania Mirza and Leander Paes lost their respective doubles matches on Thursday.While Paes and his partner Martina Hingis lost 6-3, 3-6, 2-6 to Henri Kontinen and Heather Watson in the third round of the mixed doubles, Mirza and Hingis, the top seeds and defending champions, went down 2-6, 4-6 to the fifth-seeded pair of Hungarys Timea Babos and Kazakhstans Yaroslava Shvedova in the womens doubles quarterfinals.Mirza had already been knocked out of the mixed doubles with her partner Ivan Dodig in the first round while Paes had bowed out of the mens doubles with Marcin Matkowski in the second round. The only other Indian in the tournament, Rohan Bopanna, had exited from both the mens and mixed doubles early as well.In the mixed doubles event, Paes and Hingis broke Kontinens serve in the second game to take a 2-0 lead in the first set. The next four games were played out on serve before Hingis committed a double fault on 30-40 in the seventh game to lose serve. However, she atoned for it by cracking a big forehand to break Watsons serve in the next game on break point.Paes then held serve to love to close out the first set 6-3 in 30 minutes. It was Finlands Kontinen and home favourite Robson who struck the first blow in the second set after they broke Paes serve in the sixth game to lead 4-2. That proved to be the decisive break as Paes and Hingis went on to lose the set 3-6.Paes was broken again in the fifth game of the third set when he sprayed a backhand volley wide. Hingis also lost serve in the seventh and those two breaks proved to be the difference. Watson served out the match without showing any nerves.Paes had earlier lost in the second round of the mens doubles to Kontinen and John Peers. Paes and Hingis had been in sublime form in the past year as they won the US Open last year and followed it up with a win at the French Open this year.In the womens doubles, Babos and Shvedova were off to a good start as they broke Hingis serve in the third game. Hingis troubles continued as she was broken again in the seventh game of the first set. Shvedova then held serve to close out the first set 6-2 in 27 minutes.Mirza was then broken in the first game of the second set after committing a double fault. Her problems persisted as she was broken again in the fifth game. However, they fought back to break Shvedovas serve in the eighth game of the second set but Babos closed out the match by holding her serve to love in the tenth game.Mirza and Hingis converted only one of the six breaks they received whereas Babos and Mladenovic converted all the four break points. 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Martins serves as the gatekeeper for the Orlando Summer League, the less-publicized and more exclusive summer locale for NBA teams to check out their newest draft picks and younger players trying to find a way into the league.We have a waiting list of teams right now that would love to get in, Martins told ESPN.com recently.The Magic executive didnt say this in boastful way. In fact, he went out of his way to say that he and the rest of his staff wanted to work alongside the NBA and the organizers of the Vegas Summer League to make sure they werent stepping on any toes. But Orlando has turned into the preferred destination for many around the league, away from the glitz and glamor of the Vegas Strip.How did this happen?Back in 2002, Martins and the Magic staff were looking to try something different. The Atlanta Hawks, Charlotte Hornets and Miami Heat joined up with the Magic, and the Orlando Summer League was up and running.Vegas is very productive and the teams that go out there love it and enjoy it and they get benefit out of it, Martins said. But we wanted to create an environment that was really just all about basketball. In a basketball setting, not an arena-type setting. Where the media and scouts and team officials could access and watch and evaluate, but confined to that group. Over the years, what weve been told by the teams that participate here is that they really love that environment. They love the fact that its just all about basketball. And thats not speaking negatively about Vegas in any means -- this is just different.In Vegas, teams play in the Thomas & Mack Center and the Cox Pavilion, much larger venues, which serve as the home to the UNLV mens and womens basketball teams. In 2002, the Magic started the Orlando league in the RDV Sportsplex on the practice floor the Magic used. In 2010, the Magic moved the league to the new Amway Center, but maintained the cozy atmosphere by still using their practice floor in the new structure, not the arena floor itself.The biggest difference in atmosphere, besides the cities themselves, is that the Orlando Summer League is not open to the public. The only people who can gain access are team or league personnel, agents, scouts and media. The Vegas Summer League, and now the even smaller Utah Summer League, are both open to fans. The Orlando games are broadcast on NBA TV and streamed on ESPN3 but there are only a couple hundred people in attendance in the small gym.Detroit Pistons coach and head of basketball operations, Stan Van Gundy, loves the set up in Orlando. I like the environment for players, Van Gundy said. I like the environment that its not public so you dont have a lot of people comiing in.dddddddddddd I think they can concentrate on their game more. I like this as a city a lot more than Las Vegas, Utah would probably be the same, but a few less distractions. I think they just run a really, really well-organized league. You can just come here and get to work. Well have been here 12 days, and its 12 good work days with great organization and no distractions.Part of the charm of the Orlando league is in its quaintness. In Vegas, league personnel are spread out in hotels on the Vegas Strip. In Orlando, many players and coaches can walk back and forth to the arena from the hotels located nearby. Coaches and executives can come and go as they please without being hassled by fans.Since its inception in 2002, the Orlando league has grown to a nine-team venture (the Magic have a Blue Team and a White Team to even out the schedule to 10) and has developed a loyal following. Like Van Gundy, who coached the Magic from 2007-12, Hall of Famer Patrick Ewing sung the praises of the league. Ewing, who coached the Charlotte Hornets summer league entry, served on Van Gundys Magic staff.I enjoy coming to Orlando, Ewing said. Ive lived there, I think its great. I like the fact that this one, you get in, you get your work done, and then you leave.Martins says the Magic dont make any money off the league itself, but the exposure for both the organization and the Orlando area is important.Theres no financial benefit to us, Martins said. The way it works is every team has an entry fee, and we ask basically the teams that participate just to cover all the costs. We have everything. We feed the media, we feed all the personnel that are here. We have expenses associated with using the building, etc. So we just charge an entry fee so that we cover all that. The entry fee is around $10,000-15,000 depending on the year.While there has been some talk about expanding the league in the future, Martins says there hasnt been much talk about opening the league up to the public. The only exception came in 2003 when LeBron James played his first professional game as a member of the Cleveland Cavaliers Summer League team. Aside from the sellout crowd at the old Amway Center, that game will always be remembered as the one in which former Utah alum Britton Johnsen, playing for the Magics summer league team, dunked on James.Theres always room for that special situation, Martins said. Like the year that LeBron came out and we took the game to the old Amway Arena. But beyond that, again, the beauty of this specific summer league is that it is all about basketball. Its about basketball personnel, both from the administrative side as well as the competitive side and the playing side. And thats what everybody loves about coming here. ' ' '