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The status of seeded players at the Australian Open Tennis 
Championships at Melbourne:


    MEN                                    STATUS

 1. Pete Sampras, United States            OUT -- quarterfinals (Kucera)
 2. Patrick Rafter, Australia              OUT -- third round (Berasategui)
 3. Michael Chang, United States           OUT -- second round (Raoux)
 4. Jonas Bjorkman, Sweden                 OUT -- quarterfinals (Korda) 
 5. Greg Rusedski, Great Britain           OUT -- third round (Woodbridge) 
 6. Petr Korda, Czech Republic             Won championship  
 7. Carlos Moya, Spain                     OUT -- second round (Fromberg)
 8. Thomas Muster, Austria                 OUT -- first round (Apell)
 9. Marcelo Rios, Chile                    OUT -- final (Korda)
10. Sergi Bruguera, Spain                  OUT -- first round (Kucera)
11. Alex Corretja, Spain                   OUT -- third round (Pioline)
12. Gustavo Kuerten, Brazil                OUT -- second round (Escude)
13. Goran Ivanisevic, Croatia              OUT -- first round (Siemerink)
14. Felix Mantilla, Spain                  OUT -- first round (Black)
15. Mark Philippoussis, Australia          OUT -- second round (Arazi)
16. Albert Costa, Spain                    OUT -- second round (Agassi) 

Also:
    Karol Kucera, Slovakia                 OUT -- semifinals (Korda)
    Nicolas Escude, France                 OUT -- semifinals (Rios)
    Nicolas Kiefer, Germany                OUT -- quarterfinals (Escude) 
    Alberto Berasategui, Spain             OUT -- quarterfinals (Rios) 
    

    WOMEN                                  STATUS


 1. Martina Hingis, Switzerland            Won championship 
 2. Lindsay Davenport, United States       OUT -- semifinals (Martinez)
 3. Amanda Coetzer, South Africa           OUT -- fourth round (Huber)
 4. Iva Majoli, Croatia                    OUT -- third round (Tanasugarn)
 5. Mary Pierce, France                    OUT -- quarterfinals (Hingis) 
 6. Irina Spirlea, Romania                 OUT -- first round (Williams)
 7. Arantxa Sanchez Vicario, Spain         OUT -- quarterfinals (Huber) 
 8. Conchita Martinez, Spain               OUT -- final (Hingis)
 9. Sandrine Testud, France                OUT -- quarterfinals (Martinez) 
10. Anke Huber, Germany                    OUT -- semifinals (Hingis)
11. Brenda Schultz-McCarthy, Netherlands   OUT -- second round (Nagyova)
12. Sabine Appelmans, Belgium              OUT -- first round (Zvereva)
13. Lisa Raymond, United States            OUT -- third round (Schnyder)
14. Dominique Van Roost, Belgium           OUT -- third round (Basuki) 
15. Ruxandra Dragomir, Romania             OUT -- fourth round (Davenport)
16. Ai Sugiyama, Japan                     OUT -- fourth round (Sanchez Vicario)

Also:
    Venus Williams, United States          OUT -- quarterfinals (Davenport)

 

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