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Top-ranked Israeli tennis player Dudi Sela leaves match early for Yom Kippur


Dudi Sela celebrating after winning a match at the Shenzhen Open tennis tournament in China, Sept. 28, 2017. (STR/AFP/Getty Images)
(JTA) — The World Series is weeks away, but an Israeli tennis pro has conjured memories of Sandy Koufax.
Dudi Sela, his nation’s top-ranked male player, quit his quarterfinals match Friday in the third set of a Chinese tournament so he could begin observing Yom Kippur by the time the sun set.
Sela, ranked 77th in the world, was tied at a set apiece with Alexander Dolgopolov of Ukraine at the Shenzhen Open when he realized the match would likely not finish by …read more

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