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Rodriguez ends Gustafsson's bid for fifth Swedish Open

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Posted: Wednesday July 07, 1999 01:39 PM

Gustafsson, a member of the Swedish team that won the Davis Cup last year, is the winningest player in Swedish Open history. Clive Brunskill/Allsport

BASTAD, Sweden (AP) -- Martin Rodriguez stopped Magnus Gustafsson's bid for an unprecedented fifth Swedish Open title, upsetting the Swede in three sets on Wednesday.

The Argentinian, ranked 84th on the ATP list going into Scandinavia's oldest clay-court championship, won 7-6 (7-5), 4-6, 6-1 before a near-sellout crowd to reach the quarterfinals.

Gustafsson, a member of the Swedish team that won the Davis Cup last year, is the winningest player in Swedish Open history and seeded third this year.

Not even Bjorn Borg, arguably the greatest clay-court player ever with six French Open titles, won as many titles in this Swedish west coast resort.

Christian Ruud of Norway, Magnus Norman of Sweden and Costa Rica-born Juan Antonio Marin of Spain joined Rodriguez in the quarterfinals.

Ruud, seeded fifth, breezed past Hernan Gumy of Argentina, 6-2, 6-2; No. 6 Norman beat qualifier Eduardo Nicolas of Spain, 6-3, 63 and Marin outlasted Slava Dosedel of the Czech Republic, 6-3, 4-6, 7-5 in a match between two unseeded players.

 

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