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No sweat No. 12 Grosjean no match for No. 2 Agassi in quartersPosted: Tuesday January 21, 2003 2:31 AMUpdated: Tuesday January 21, 2003 12:10 PM
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) -- Andre Agassi moved within two victories of his fourth Australian Open title Tuesday by beating Sebastien Grosjean 6-3, 6-2, 6-2. Grosjean put in only 47 percent of his first serves, and won only 34 percent of the points on his second serve. The 32-year-old Agassi had beaten Grosjean 10 days earlier in the final of the Kooyong Classic warmup tournament. And the last two times Agassi won that event, in 2000 and 2001, he won the Australian Open. An injury kept him out last year. "I make a guy really pay the price to beat me," Agassi said. Agassi has lost only one set, to France's Nicolas Escude, in reaching the semifinals. "It helps that it's January," he said. "I think a lot of players take a break at the end [of the year]. That's where I learned to prepare and come here ready." In the fourth round Monday, No. 1 Lleyton Hewitt's hope of becoming the first Australian men's champion at the event since 1976 vanished under a barrage of aces by Younes El Aynaoui. El Aynaoui, a Moroccan seeded 18th, allowed Hewitt just three break points -- and zero breaks of serve -- in the 6-7 (4), 7-6 (4), 7-6 (5), 6-4 upset. |
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