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Flipping out Outburst will cost Philippoussis $750
Posted: Sunday January 23, 2000 09:10 PM
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) -- Mark Philippoussis was fined $750 for angrily smashing his racket during his fourth-round loss to Andre Agassi. The No. 16 seeded Australian wrecked his racket Sunday after losing the second set even though he had been 4-1 up in the tiebreak. Top-seeded Agassi won 6-4, 7-6 (4), 5-7, 6-3. Bill Gilmore, a Grand Slam supervisor, announced the fine late Sunday night. "I had to let some frustration out, otherwise I was going to kill someone. Better the racket," Philippoussis said. Said Agassi: "The guy can make a racket look like a toothpick, you know. I was just thinking, `I'm glad I'm not the racket.'"
New lookLleyton Hewitt's dad shaved his head and his coach hasn't shaved in weeks because of his success. Glyn Hewitt promised to shave his scalp if his 18-year-old son, the last Australian player in the men's singles, won a tournament earlier this month in Adelaide. Long-haired Lleyton won that, then another tournament in Sydney and now faces No. 12 seeded Magnus Norman in the fourth round of the Australian Open. The 13-match winning streak has gotten the better of coach Darren Cahill, though he's not complaining. Cahill promised before Adelaide that he wouldn't shave until a Hewitt loss. Only problem is, the scruffy-looking Cahill is getting married in two weeks.
Smart answerSome play it hard, some play it cute. When asked which of the top women was the most difficult to play against, Anna Kournikova said it was impossible to decide. The Russian, yet to win a title on tour and who was ousted in the fourth round by second-seeded Lindsay Davenport, said of No. 1 Martina Hingis, Davenport and Serena and Venus Williams, "they have different games." "Martina plays smart, Lindsay plays hard and smart, and Venus and Serena, they hit also very hard," said Kournikova, who didn't exactly spell out the big differences.
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