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WINDOW ON WIMBLEDON

From Our Spors Correspondent
LONDON, luly 5 Top seed Andre Agassi has reached the quarterfinals at Wimbledon fiir the fourth time in his career. He made his debut in 1987 and lost in the first round to Henri Laconte of France 6-2, 6-1, 6-2. He did not play at the Wimbledon until 1991. He was seeded number 5 and reached the quarterfinal but lost to David Wheaton 6-2, 0-6, 3-6, 7-6 and 6-2. He beat David Wheaton this year in the fourth round in tour sets In
1992 Agassi seeded number 12, won his first career Grand Slam singles title defeating Goran Ivanisevic of Croatia 6-7, 6-4, 6-4, 1-6, 6-4 in the final. In 1993, Agassi, as the number 8 seed again lost in the quarterfinals, this time to eventual champion Pete Sampras 6-2, 6-2, 3-6, 3-6, 6-4. And last year as the number 12 seed lost in the round of 16 Lo Todd Martin 6-3, 7-5, 6-7, 4-6, 6-1.
For the first time Jacco Elt-ingh of the Netherlands has
reached the Wimbledon quarterfinals round. He reached his first Grand Slam quarterfinals earlier this year at the 1995 Ford Australian Open losing that round to Aaron_ Krickstein 7-6, 6-4, 5-7, 6-4." His previous best at the Wimbledon was round of 16 finish in 1991 where his lost to his next opponent Andre Agassi 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4
Playing in his 27th career Grand Slam and 8th career Wimbledon Goran Ivanisevic has lifted nis career Grand Slam record to 63-26 (25-7) at Wimbledon and his career Eiss court record to 34-11.
has won more matches here at the championships than at any other Grand Slam played, reaching the final twice (In 1992 losing to Agassi 6-7, 6-4, 6-4, 1-6, 6-4 and in 1994 to Sampras 7-6, 7-6, 6-0). Between last year's Wimbledon and this year's, Ivanisevic had not won a Grand Slam match losing in the first round at the US Open, at the Australian Open and at the French Open. Ivanisevic played his first career Grand Slam at 1988 Wimbledon as qualifier losing to Amos Maasdorf. At the 1989 Ford Australian Open, also as a qualifier, he reached the quarterfinals falling to Miloslav Mecir 7-5, 6-0, 6-3. Ivanisevic reached his first Grand Slam semifinals at 1990 Wimbledon losing to Boris Becker 4-6, 7-6, 6-0. 7-6.
Playing in his only 8th career Grand Slam and second Wimbledon, number 6 seed Yevgeni Kafelnikov of Russia has advanced to his first Wimbledon but third Grand Slam quarterfinal round. Kafelnikov achieved his first Grand Slam quarterfinal round at the Ford Australian Open defeating Todd Martin of the United States 6-1. 6-4, 6-2. In the round of 16, falling to eventual champion Agassi 6-2, 7-5, 6-0. At the French Open this year he achieved Jus first Grand Slam semifinals defeating Andre Agassi of the US in the quarterfinals 6-4, 6-3, 7-5 before falling to eventual champion Thomas Muster of Austria 6-4, 6-0. 6-4.
Playing in his 12th consecutive Wimbledon Boris Becker has achieved his tenth quarterfinal round at the championships Since 1985 when Becker won his first Grand Slam title here, he only failed to reach, at least the Suarterfinals once. In 1987 ecker lost in the second round here to Peter Doohan. Becker's Wimbledon history is as follows: 1984 lost in 3rd round to Bill Scanlon. 1985 won the title defeating Kevin Curren in the final. 1986 won little defeating Ivan Lendl in the final. 1987 lost to Doohan in second round. 1988 lost in the final to Stefan Edberg. 1989 won little defeating Ed berg. 1990 lost final to Stefan Edberg. 1991 lost final to Michael Stich. 1992 lost QF to Agassi. 1993 lost SF to Sampras. 1994 lost SF to Ivanisevic. Becker holds five Grand Slam titles: 1985, 86, 89 Wimbledon, 1989 US Open, and 1990 Ford Australian Open. He has not reached a Grand Slam singles final since 1991 Wimbledon when he lost to Stich. Becker has improved his career Wimbledon match record to 60-8. He has won more matches here than any other active player, has better win ning record here than Bjorn Borg at 51 4 and John McEn roe's career Wimbledon match record of 59-11
Cedric Pioline of France has achieved his second Wimbledon and third Grand Slam quarterfinal round. The advancement of Pioline to the Wimbledon round of 16 means that, for the fourth year in a row and the eighth time in the Open Era, at least one French man has achieved the fourth round at the Championships. Pioline reached his first Grand Slam quarterfinal at 1993 Wimbledon where he defeated Wally Masur 6-3, 6-2, 3-6, 6-7, 8-6 in the fourth round falling to Stefan Edberg 7-5, 7-5, 6-3. Shuzo Matsuoka has achieved his first Grand Slam quarterfinal round. He is the first Japanese man to achieve this round in the Open Era and the last since Jiro Sato reached the 1933 Wimbledon semifinals. Prior to this Wimbledon Matsuoka had never before been past a Grand Slam second round.
Two time defending champion Pete Sampras won his 18th consecutive match here at Wimbledon as well as his 16th consecutive win on grass. His overall Grand Slam match record improves to 89-19. This is his seventh Wimbledon appearance with a record here of 24-4. He made his first appearance here in 1989 losing to Todd Woodbridge 7-5, 7-6. 5-7, 6-3. In 1990 Sampras also lost in the first round to Christo van Rensburg 7-6, 7-5, 7-6. In 1992 Sampras reached the semifinals defeating Michael Stich in the quarterfinals falling to Ivanisevic. In 1993 and in 1994 Sampras won the title. Sampras holds 33 career singles including four tournaments on grass.