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All eyes on New York Sampras-Agassi draws record rating for cable tennis
NEW YORK (AP) -- Pete Sampras' four-set victory over Andre Agassi in the quarterfinals of the U.S. Open attracted the largest tennis audience ever for a cable network. USA Network's coverage of the Wednesday night match earned a rating of 4.1 with 3,422,000 homes tuned into the telecast. That translates to 4.6 million viewers. The highest previous rating was a 5.9 for the Jimmy Connors-Paul Haarhuis match on Sept. 5, 1991. At that time, USA was seen in 62 percent of the country and the telecast reached 3,388,000 homes. The network is now in over 80 percent of American households. Through the first 10 days of the U.S. Open, USA's primetime rating was 1.9, up 36 percent from last year's 1.4. The combined day-night rating is 1.5, up 36 percent from last year's 1.1.
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