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Navratilova, 45, serves out match Posted: Friday August 30, 2002 11:09 PMUpdated: Friday August 30, 2002 11:20 PM NEW YORK (AP) -- Martina Navratilova has beaten several top-seeded players in her amazing career, but no one really expected the 45-year-old veteran to do it again. Still, the 18-time Grand Slam singles champion, partnered with Leander Paes of India, beat top-seeded mixed doubles pair Rennae Stubbs and Todd Woodbridge of Australia 7-6 (4), 7-5 Friday in the first round of the U.S. Open. Navratilova and Paes traded two breaks in the first set before winning the tiebreak, and they again traded breaks in the fourth and fifth games of the second set. But with Stubbs serving in the 11th game, Navratilova and Paes won the next eight straight points -- breaking Stubbs' serve before Navratilova served out the match. Navratilova, who has also won 31 doubles titles and seven mixed doubles at Grand Slam tournaments, has had limited success since reviving her career, but she proved last year that she can still be a threat. At the U.S. Open last year, she and teammate Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario reached the quarterfinals of the women's doubles competition. But in mixed doubles, Navratilova and partner Max Mirnyi of Belarus lost to Stubbs and Woodbridge, the eventual champions in the first round. |
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