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 Wimbledon Notebook Davenport quietly cruises into fourth round
Posted: Friday June 26, 1998 04:34 PM
WIMBLEDON, England (AP) -- A semifinalist last year, second-seeded Lindsay Davenport got into the fourth round Friday -- virtually unnoticed. Under a darkening sky, Davenport beat No. 31-ranked Maria Alejandra Vento of Venuzuela 6-3, 1-6, 6-2. After dominating the opening set, Davenport ran into trouble -- struggling to reach her opponent's well-placed shots as Vento won the second. "She was running everything down," Davenport said. "And I haven't played anyone here who doesn't have a slice. The balls were coming a lot harder and a lot earlier. Luckily I got off to a good lead in the third and just got more balls in. "But it was awful out there," she said of the on-and-off rain. "I'd won the first set and looked up and the darkest cloud I've ever seen was there. I think it was very lucky we even got out there and got through."
Does Monica have a new beau?London's Evening Standard is reporting that Monica Seles has a new boyfriend.The newspaper said she befriended a young Australian who stopped and asked her for directions at the London underground station in Piccadily Circus. He apparently did not know who she was. "I gather the conversation went so well that telephone numbers were exchanged, and the two have since enjoyed dinner together," the gossip column said. The paper ran a blurry photo of Seles and the man, who was wearing a corked hat and was described as looking like Paul Hogan, star of the film "Crocodile Dundee."
Blame it on the baggy shortsSue Mott, writing in The Daily Telegraph, described why Spain's Carlos Moya committed so many foot-faults in his second-round loss: His shorts were too long."His foot-faulting was ridiculous and probably owed everything to the fact that he could not see his shoes," she wrote. "He had so much billowing sail in his knee-length shorts that he only needed a bit of rigging and he could have competed in the Whitbread Round the World yacht race."
Goran relives pain of '92Goran Ivanisevic, twice runner-up at Wimbledon, on Thursday watched his 1992 final with Andre Agassi -- apparenlty expecting a different result."Yesterday killed me," he said. "Yesterday during the rain delay they showed the '92 final. "I was watching the whole last set and I thought maybe I'm going to win ... I thought maybe I would do something different, but nothing." Ivanisevic reached the third round Friday with a four-set win over Andrei Medvedev, calling it his best match since 1994 when he lost the final to Pete Sampras. "The last six months ... it's been my worst six months ever in my career," he said. "I say, `OK,' the first half of the year is gone.' "Now it's the second part of the year, Wimbledon's come, and I just felt like I should play ... It doesn't mean that I'm going to do well here, but I just feel some way this year is going to break through."
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