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Show The Salt Lake Tribune SPORTS Friday, January 22, 1999 Australia’s Rafter Falls a6-3, Ssvey to stay on course for a possibl seen wits op seed Lindsay Davenport. A year ago, Williams boasted that she would be No. 1 by year's end She's becomemore realisticic since, ac- To Envqvist in Open BY STEVE WILSTEIN ‘THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MELBOURNE,Australia — Women wept and men dropped their heads as the romance disappeared from the Australian Openfor the host nation. Patrick Rafter, two-time U.S. Open popular athletes, couldn't cope with the steady tattoo of championandoneof Australia’s most Hesu Toten cepting that the road to the top is harder than she thought. ” shesaid. “IT ee to sit back and try to think abou it this.”” ‘American ChandaRubin, a firstrounderloser last year but a semifinalist in 1996 in her best Grand Slam tournamentshowing, knocked outanotherseed, No. 15 Natasha Zvereva, 7-6 (7-3), 4.6, 6-4. Thefifth-seeded Williams drilled half a dozenaces and attacked Romanian Ruxandra Dragomir at the netin 3 can only advanceat this point. I definitely think thatall thegirls in the top five or six are pretty close. I have to do a couple more things better and me more consistent before I can really contendforthetoptitle. “Those are the things I have to work on andbe serious about and be honest with myself aboutit,” she said. ‘I be- lievethat time is soon, but not just now.” cees enon (4)Anil Min Mi, = ee AUSTRALIAN OPEN 62.62 and Andrei Olborti. Waskata Wa, 6264 eet Hrckova, Coch Rep. ad Ta Grea, Slowest, def. Virginia Ruane Pas Wones Spain, and Paola Soares (9), Argentina, 36.62 Third Round ‘Veous Willams (5), Pal Beach Gardens, Fl Caech Republic Aleksandar Kitinor, donia,and Michael Kohimann, Germany, 6-2, 6 bef Ruxandra Dragorr. Romania, 63,64 Mara Antonia Sancher Lorem, Spain. def Jana Novotna (3), Cech Repoble 63. 60. © Elis Ferreira, Soth Africa and Rick (4), Laguna Beach, Calf. def Brest a Maureen Drake. Canada, def. Syina Phschke South Africa. andTJ. Middleton, Atlanta 63.6 Austra, 62.62 (Chanda Robin, Lafayette La. def Natasha 4 Otiver Delatre and Fabrice Santoro (7) France, det Wayne Arthurs and Peter Tramac chi Australia, 74 7.3), 63 3 Easy it a tnSt ue van Roos (11), Belgum, def Jana Settle, det: Lan Ble, SouthAfric sejty Cha 61.61 Paps (8 Ata, tn Krosak Slovakia 36,63, 64,6: Mar Hoel Seta de Tin Homan (Britain, 74 7-5), 63,75. Ubrach, Coech Republic def, Jeff Manhattan Beach, Calf. 1-6, 63, 62, Nicolas Lapentt, Reuador, def. Mikael strom, Sweden, $5,7-8 (119), 28, 64, 62. ‘Thomas Enqvist, Sweden. def. Pat Rafter (3) ‘Australia, 64.44, 64,64 Doubles Second Round and Peter Nyborg, Sweden, 6-3, 63, David Rodit, Mexico, and Michael Tebtutt Grant Doyle and Ben Elwood, Australia def ‘Australia, def. Andrew Florentand David Mac- Brick Taio, Jerry City, NJ, and Jack Wait Boca Raton, Fla, 60,6 (Catalina Cristea and Ruxandra Dragom: mania, def Ines Garrochategai, Argento Stefi Graf, Germany, 64.36. 63 from Sweden's Thomas Engqvist and tumbled outof the tournament today, -6, 6-4, 6-4. He played too big and too strong for me,”Rafter said. “Henever really gave mea chance. ‘The departure of the No. 3 Rafter AT&T Wireless. cut to six the numberof seeded men players left in the tournament midway through the fourth round, and left Andre Agassi as the highest seed re- mainingat No. 5. Available in S,M,L, and XXXXL Rafter represented morethanjusta chance for Australians to have one of their own win the men’s title for the first time since Mark Edmondsonbeat compatriot John Newcombe in 1976. ‘The pony-tailed Rafter is regarded like a rock star Down Under, and his photos appearin fashion magazines. Every time he even changeshisshirt on court, womenand girls whistle. The match turned against Rafter at 3-3 in the fourth set when he double faulted trying to save a fifth break point. Engqvist never yielded after that, holding serve twice as he set up match point with an ace and putit away with a servethat Rafter slapped lotng. Though Rafter served 21 aces to Enqvist's 13, the Swede was more dangerous and took more chances with second serves. “I hit good second serves and kept him away from thenet. That was the key,” said Engqvist, who was cheered on every point bythe small but ioud contingent of Swedish fans. “I feel like I'm playing well enough to beat an possin the draw. ist, who las won all i1 of his rhatelies sp far this year and captured twotune-uptitles, next meets Australia’s other tennis hero, No. 14 Mark Philippoussis. Philippoussis served 17 aces in a 3. , 6-1 vietory over Jan Kroslak of Slovakia. In other men’s third-round matches, No. 6 Tim Henmanof Britain fell to Switzerland's Mare Rosset 7-6 (5), 6-3, 7-5 and No. 7 Karol Kucera of Slovakia beat Marat Safin of Russia 62, 6-3, 6-2. Unseeded Australian Andrew ule beat Norway's Christian Ruud, co: querer of No. 2 seed Alex Corretja, 6. -2, 6-4, and unseeded Bohdan Uiuncach of the Czech Republic knocked out American Jeff Tarango 1-6, 6-3, 6-2, 6-3. Henman didn't know what to make of Rosset, one of the hardest servers in tennis who wasplaying with obvi- ous discomfort due to abdominal pains “In the third set, at one stage, he looks like he’s barelycapable of moving, and two points later he's running likea gazelle,” Henman said. Whetheryoutravel across country or across town, we have plan for you. “I took morerisks than him,” Rosset said. ‘I was hitting the ball much harder from the baseline thought he would have hit harder.” Wimbledon women’s champion Jana Novotna faded in a nightmarish spate of wildness, while Venus Wil- liamsplayed her mostaggressive tennis yet to advancetothe fourth round. Novotna,the No. 3 seed, slapped a forehand way out on match point to endherfirst trip to Australia in four years with a 6-3, 6-0 loss to Spain's Maria Antonia Sanchez Lorenzo, who had neverbefore gone beyondthesec ond round of a majortournament Trying to work her way into shape after a back injury hampered her in the secondhalf of last year, Novotna Lots of included minutes. Home Service Area wherelife takes you. includes Utah and Idaho. sprayed 33 errors to just 10 by the Spaniard “Treally don't know whatto say. I'm AS LOW AS tig A MINUTE 600 stili in a stateof shock,” Novotnasaid. “I don’t know what went wrong. 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