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Good day, bad day Costa wins, Corretja crashes at Open Seat Godo
Posted: Thursday October 14, 1999 08:52 PM
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) -- Spain's Albert Costa, coming off a tournament victory Sunday in the Estoril Open in Portugal, beat Italy's Andrea Gaudenzi 6-3, 6-2 on Tuesday in the Seat Godo Open. "I was a little worried. I have had problems with Gaudenzi, but today it was a little easier," Costa said after the first-round match in the clay-court tournament. Spain's Alex Corretja, No. 5 in the ATP Tour rankings, failed to rebound from a poor performance in the Davis Cup, dropping a 7-6 (7-3), 6-3 decision to Morocco's Youness El Aynaoui. "Mentally I don't have the same motivation as in other years," Corretja said. "Off the court I feel fine, but on the court I just don't have any motivation. "I don't have any desire to play, I wanted to try playing in the Davis Cup and the Godo to see if that helped, but it hasn't." Australia's Mark Philippoussis, ranked No. 9, also was eliminated, falling 4-6, 7-6 (8-6), 7-6 (7-5) to Italy's 151st-ranked Renzo Furlan. Spain's Felix Mantilla and Albert Portas advanced along with American Vince Spadea and Brazil Fernando Meligeni. Mantilla routed countryan Galo Blanco 6-2, 6-0. Portas beat Ukraine's Andrei Medvedev 6-4, 6-1. Spadea edged Sweden's Magnus Norman 6-4, 6-3, and Meligeni beat Switzerland's Marc Rosset 6-3, 6-2. Top-ranked Pete Sampras and defending champion Todd Martin, both of the United States, begin singles play Wednesday. Sampras, playing his first clay-court event of the year as he prepares for the French Open, will face Spadea.
Sampras and Britain's Tim Henmen were eliminated in the second
round of doubles, falling 6-2, 7-6 (7-2) to Yevgeny Kafelnikov of
Russia and Paul Haarhuis of the Netherland.
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