Both of us have similar style games and we're both huge competitors
"Both of us have similar style games and we're both huge competitors."Seles will meet the champion here for the past two years, Serena Williams, in the last eight. It will be her second match with a Williams sister in five days, having lost to Venus in the Acura Classic final on Sunday.Seles, the sixth seed, is playing just her third tournament since May. A stress fracture in her right foot kept her out of the French Open and Wimbledon, and she still cannot incorporate running into her work-outs.The No 3 seed, Kim Clijsters of Belgium, defeated Alicia Molik, of Australia, 7-6, 6-3. The No 2 seed, Lindsay Davenport of the United States, beat the 18-year-old Czech Daja Bedanova 6-3, 6-3 in 62 minutes. Davenport faced just two break points on her serve against last year's WTA newcomer of the year.. Greg Rusedski, the British No 2, emerged on the wrong side of a 5-7, 7-6, 6-4 defeat to Pat Rafter in the quarter-finals of the ATP Tour Tennis Masters Series in Cincinnati. Greg Rusedski, the British No 2, emerged on the wrong side of a 5-7, 7-6, 6-4 defeat to Pat Rafter in the quarter-finals of the ATP Tour Tennis Masters Series in Cincinnati. In a battle of the big servers Rusedski's confidence and stoic approach matched Rafter throughout the first two sets.
At 5-4 down in the second, the Briton staved off four set points on his own serve and then forced a tie-break but Rafter's guile and deft touch enabled the Australian to take a two-set advantage. Both players comfortably held serve in the opening two games of the third set, but Rafter's thundering deliveries followed by precision cross-court volleys soon proved too difficult a combination for Rusedski to challenge.The French Open champion, Gustavo Kuerten, embarrassed the Wimbledon champion, Goran Ivanisevic, 6-2, 6-1 in their third-round meeting on Thursday night.Kuerten, the Brazilian top seed, was too sharp for an inconsistent Ivanisevic as he proved he is more than a clay-court player. Kuerten, a semi-finalist here a year ago, has won five events this year and 20 of his last 22 matches all on clay.Lleyton Hewitt, the fifth seed, rallied to beat Max Mirnyi, of Belarus, 1-6, 6-4, 7-6 for his 55th win of the year the best record on the ATP tour. In the quarter-finals, he will face Jan-Michael Gambill, of the United States, who defeated Guillermo Ca? of Argentina, 6-3, 6-4. Ivan Ljubicic, of Croatia, became the third unseeded player in the quarter-finals with a 6-2, 6-3 victory over Hicham Arazi.At the Los Angeles Classic, Monica Seles, of the United States, took more than two hours to beat the Frenchwoman Sandrine Testud 3-6, 7-6, 6-4 in the third round on Thursday."She and I always play these marathon matches," said Seles. "Both of us have similar style games and we're both huge competitors."Seles will meet the champion here for the past two years, Serena Williams, in the last eight.
It will be her second match with a Williams sister in five days, having lost to Venus in the Acura Classic final on Sunday.Seles, the sixth seed, is playing just her third tournament since May. A stress fracture in her right foot kept her out of the French Open and Wimbledon, and she still cannot incorporate running into her workouts.The No 3 seed, Kim Clijsters of Belgium, defeated Alicia Molik, of Australia, 7-6, 6-3. The No 2 seed, Lindsay Davenport of the United States, beat the 18-year-old Czech Daja Bedanova 6-3, 6-3 in 62 minutes. Davenport faced just two break points on her serve against last year's WTA newcomer of the year..
American Lindsay Davenport never faced a break point on her serve in beating Nathalie Tauziat of France 6–1, 6–2 in the estyle Classic semifinals today. American Lindsay Davenport never faced a break point on her serve in beating Nathalie Tauziat of France 6–1, 6–2 in the estyle Classic semifinals today. Davenport, the second seed, advanced to the final against top–seeded Martina Hingis of Switzerland or No. 6 Monica Seles of the United States, who played a later match."If Lindsay plays like this she can win the tournament," Tauziat said. "She played really well and didn't let me in the match."Davenport had her easiest match of the week, needing just 47 minutes to dispose of the fifth–seeded Frenchwoman, who plans to retire at year's end."I was hitting the ball better than the last few days. We didn't have really long rallies, but I felt like I was timing the ball better and just felt a little bit less pressure than yesterday," said Davenport, who connected on 83 percent of her first serves.Davenport needed three sets to get by No.
7 Elena Dementieva of Russia in the quarterfinals Friday, and won two tiebreakers in a third–round win over 18–year–old Daja Bedanova of the Czech Republic."She didn't play great and I played a lot better than I have so far this week," she said. "It's nice after struggling in a few matches and having some long matches to have kind of an easier match. Hopefully, it will help me for tomorrow to rest a little bit more."No matter what Davenport does in Sunday's final, she already has withdrawn from next week's tournament in Toronto, citing left wrist tendinitis."It felt a lot better today than yesterday, that's for sure," she said. "I got some treatment on it twice yesterday and will do it again tomorrow It showed a lot on my backhand. I felt a lot looser and it felt like I could use it more than yesterday."Davenport broke Tauziat five times, scoring easy winners with serves that often registered more than 161 kph (100 mph). Her groundstrokes were far more accurate than in previous matches."She served well and I had trouble," Tauziat said "Every time I returned, I had to return well. She was quick on the ball and I was always late."Tauziat committed 16 unforced errors, and won just 15 of her 31 trips to the net."She made some volley errors, especially in the beginning, that normally she is pretty solid on," Davenport said.Tauziat, 33, defeated 11th–seeded Jelena Dokic of Yugoslavia and No.