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Tue 07 Jul 2007Infuriated Tourte refuses to play ball"Seven times! Always against me!" shouted an exasperated Nicolas Tourte before, match-point down, firing his final two serves, quite deliberately, into the trees behind Louk Sorensen.Sorensen's celebration was, understandably, muted, but he accepted Tourte's handshake at the net and departed. The French man stood shaking his head for a moment, before he too bid adieu.