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MILWAUKEE -- Jimmy Nelson will try for his first victory in over a month when he takes the ball Friday as the Milwaukee Brewers open a three-game series with the St. Louis Cardinals at Miller Park.Nelson was Milwaukees best starter for the first two months of the season, going 5-2 with a 2.88 ERA through his first 11 starts. Since then, though, Nelson has scuffled and is 0-4 with a 5.59 ERA in his last six outings, but has shown signs of improvement by only allowing four over his last three outings.You always want to have no bad starts, no struggles, no little dips, Counsell said. But I think we were all confident he was going to get back to a good place.Nelson allowed seven hits, two earned runs and two walks to go along with four strikeouts.I did a pretty good job of keeping the ball on the ground and just simplifying things between starts, Nelson said. Kind of letting the movement work. Felt good.That loss was part of a three-game sweep at the hands of the Cardinals, but Milwaukee rebounded from that setback by taking two of three from the NL East-leading Nationals.To keep it going, theyll have to do it without infielder Aaron Hill, who was dealt Thursday to Boston for a pair of prospects and cash.After a slow start to the season, Hill became one of the more consistent producers in Milwaukees lineup. A .166 hitter in the month of April, Hill battled .323 over his last 56 games for the Brewers, with seven home runs and 22 RBI.Hill was responsible for two of the nine hits allowed by Cardinals right-hander Michael Wacha in St. Louis 9-8 victory over Milwaukee July 3.Wacha only lasted five innings in that outing but held the Brewers to just a pair of runs while striking out six to extend his winning streak to three games.Hell try to make it four in a row when he takes the mound Friday, as the Cardinals try to string together back-to-back victories after avoiding a four-game sweep with a 5-1 victory over the Pirates Thursday.There were times our team could have easily shut it down and they picked it up, said Adam Wainwright, who threw seven innings of one-run ball Thursday. Were in that spot right now where Jhonny (Peralta) hurt and when (Brandon) Moss is hurt and when all these great players are hurt, (Matt Carpenters) hurt, weve got to step up.Wacha has never lost to the Brewers, posting a 4-0 record and a 4.10 ERA in six career games -- five starts -- including a 1-0 mark and a 9.00 ERA in two appearances at Miller Park.The Cardinals, meanwhile, have gone 12-0-1 in the last 13 series with the Brewers and are 7-2 against Milwaukee in nine meetings this season. Air Force 1 Herre Norge . The giant slalom world champion slipped during her first run in the morning, landing on her back and then twisting forward before getting her leg caught in the protective material on the side of the slope. Air Force 1 Dame Norge . 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In an extensive interview with ESPN on the eve of the final, the founder of the league, former Indian doubles star Mahesh Bhupathi, concedes that this year has been challenging but believes the IPTL will bounce back strongly next season.Have the last three weeks been tough?Doing the production we do in multiple countries is hectic for the entire team. But we are used to it now, it is the third year so two more days to go so happy to be almost through.What has this season been like? Youve obviously had some well-documented challenges..It was just about getting through those challenges and making sure we get through the season. There were a lot of people close to the process who were trying to advise us to suspend season three and do it next year but in sport once you do that, it is difficult to bounce back. In general, we are just happy we kept it afloat. The quality of tennis has been amazing and the final will be great. We will bounce back next year.What were your biggest challenges at the start of the season? You had to remove one city at the start of the season for instance. The biggest problem we had was the owner who owned the Japanese Franchise ran into financial issues and he wasnt able to keep his commitments to us. Obviously for a two-year old league to deal with that kind of hole was difficult and unlike the other big leagues in India we didnt have the muscle power to get the bank guarantees and so on and so forth because we were still in the building phase.When we were about to get through those challenges and some of the current owners were happy to help us get through it, this whole November 8 thing happened (Government announcing demonetisation). Ticket sales have been really upsetting and embarrassing for us in India but it is what it is and like I said we hope to bounce back next year.What have you learned from this? Do you believe the league needs to go to a minimum number of cities for it to be credible?The learning has been that the players loved it, all of them were happy to come back and the ones we requested not to come were upset that they couldnt make it. We dont know the right answer to your question. Ideally from my perspective, the more cities, more matches, more content and more money.Obviously we have to keep in mind the players who have a long season. It is going to evolve. We have to sit down over the next two days and decide if we are going to do three cities in rotation or pick the three biggest markets and have the teams play there. We havent decided that yet.Obviously the IPTL would work a lot better if the star players played. You annouunced Roger Federer and Serena Williams would play and then they pulled out.dddddddddddd Was that a blow because there was an anticipation of these big names travelling to India and suddenly they werent coming?Just to be clear, they didnt pull out. We had to request them not to come. The revenues on this side werent matching the expenses. If we went ahead with it we would have dug ourselves in a big hole and they were very understanding about it. Obviously if Roger was here I am sure we would have probably sold out the stadium. When we announced ticket sales, 15 days into it with Roger and Serenas names on the ticket we sold about 18 Lakhs of tickets. So that wasnt the case, thats why we panicked.One of the things that is often said about the tennis circuit is that it is too long. So what can the IPTL add to an already packed calendar?I think it is the format. A few of the players have said it too that it is always the dream of an athlete to play in a team competition, to play for their team members and to play for the fans. Tennis is a very individual sport and we have created that concept that you belong to a team. If you see the highlights of any of our matches, the intensity from the bench is quite outstanding. I think thats what makes the players want to play and enjoy it. Thats half the battle won.There has been talk outside about payments to players not going through. Is that talk outside or are there real problems at the managerial level?Like I said, we had that challenge with one owner last year and we were in a financial hole. We ended up paying all the players probably seven month late last year and we paid them all with interest. Yes, there were late payments but my job having been a player and a colleague to most of them, they know that I am never going to stiff them and the fact that they all came back was testimony to that.How do you respond to criticism that sometimes these tournaments are a little bit of an exhibition, that what you are seeing out there is not really a fully intense competition that you would see on the circuit?That is an opinion. You will see in the final the intensity and how badly both the teams want to win. I think special events have a place in tennis. The Hopman cup has been there for 20 plus years, the world team cup in Dusseldorf was there for 15 years and tennis needs to evolve.The current format has no room for movement because of the way it is structured, it is owned half by the players and half by the tournaments so theres never going to be change. We are able to experiment a lot, by playing no lets, shorter points and shorter format. It is made for TV and content made for TV is what will sell over time.So you are confident that the IPTL will be back in 2017 bigger and better?I am feeling pretty good about it. ' ' '