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Steffi scrapes through
MELBOURNE.
Australia. Jan 17(Agencies): Olympic champion Lindsay Davenport is fit and hungry for her first Grand Slam title. Swiss teen Martina Hingis is charging up the ranks. And world No 1 Steffi Graf has been troubled by a stiff back.
Still, a flashing comeback from her second slow start shows why nobody is counting Graf out at the Australian Open.
While Davenport was
i rouncing Thailand's Tamarine Tanasugam 6-1, 6-0 in the third round Friday. Graf found herself trailing 2-5 against Ar-genl Ina's Ines Gorrochategui. ranked 98th in the world.
She suddenly turned on the power and accuracy, winning 20 of the next 22 points en route to a 7-5. 6-3 victory.
The men's side also has its challengers — the well-known. H thfr-Otikiiowi h. anckit 1 re- -rapidly rising.
Carlos Moya; the unknown 20-year-old Spaniard who ousted defending champion Boris Becker in the first round, advanced to the last 16 by trouncing Germany’s Bernd Karbacher 6-2. 6-2. 6-2.
Rapidly rising Tim Henman. 22. the object of "Hen-mania" back home in Britain, faced well-known challenger Michael Chang, the world No 2. in a night match Friday. No 1 Pete Sampras doesn't play his third-round match until Saturday.
Graf, who missed tournaments last year with back and
knee injuries, said her back has "been a little stiff in the mornings and I seem to have a bit of trouble during the match but 1 felt 1 was moving okay
Still, she said, she wasn't moving well enough to adjust to the wind In the early garner., when she was bun by a rash of errors, especially forehands into the net.
It was the second straight match in which she needed to come back from 2-5.
"I'm not too happy with it. but then when it gets down to the important points when I
need to focus a little more. 1 seem to be doing it and it doesn't seem to be too difficult." she added.
In her quest for her seventh straight Grand Slam title. Graf next faces No 12 seed Amanda Coetzer of South Africa, a 6-3. 6-2 winner over qualifier Maria Luisa Serna of Spain.
"She will not allow you to have a bad day/' Graf said. "Sh|
won't give you easy points."
Next could come a quarterfinal matchup with Davenport, the last player to beat Graft She (lid it last August, soon after winning her Olympic gold medal in Atlanta, where she beat Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario In the final.
First Davenport faces 1.6-member Kimberly Po. a 6-2, 6-2 winner over Japan's Rika Hi raki, who is an Inch shorter.
Another round-of-16 match pits last year's runner-up. No 5 seed Anke Huber, against 1995 champion Mary Pierce of France.
Huber advanced by beating Natasha Zvereva of Belarus 7-5. 6-.0. and Pierce drubbed German qualifier Markets Kochta 6-0, 6-2,
No 3 Conchita Martinez of Spain blitzed Asa Carlsson of Sweden 6-1. 6-0. and next plays No 16 Sabine Appelmans of Deig.^.n. Appelmans beat Dutch player Kritie Boogert. who withdrew with a left thigh muscle injury while trailing 6-1. 3-0.
World No 25 Moya, who never before has progressed beyond the second round of a Grand Slam tournament, said. I’m plaving well and 1 hope it continues,'
He was runner-up to Henman in the Sydney International tournament last Sunday. Against Karbacher. he saved all eight break points against him.
He now plays Sweden’s Jonas Bjorkman, who beat Germany's Karsten Braasch 6-4, 7-6 (7 -5). 6-3.
No 7 Thomas Enqvist of Sweden beat Spain's Sergi Bruguera 7-6. (10-8), 7-5. 6-2, advancing to a match against No 9 Marcelo Rios of Clrile. who ousted Gilbert Schaller of Austria 4-6. 7-6 (7-2). 6-1. 6-1.
Last year’s Wimbledon runner-up Malivai Washington, beat Australian Todd Wood-bridge 4-6. 6-2. 6-3 6-J. He next meets No 14 Felix Mantilla of Spain, a 6-3. 1-6. 7-6 (7-4), 6-4 winner over France’s Arnaud Boetsch.
Andrei Medvedev of Ukraine needed only 70 minutes to beat Dutch player Dennis van Schoppingen 6-1.6-1.6-1.
On Thursday. Croatian rocket server Goran Ivanisevic showed Slovakia’s Karol Kucera no mercy in blasting his way into the third round
His 6-4. 6-2. 6-2 win in a withering 89 minutes com pleted an unbeaten day for the remaining seeds after the loss ol eight seeded players over the opening three days, among them defending champion Boris Becker.
In the opening match of the night session. American 15th seed Chanda Rubin demolished Frances Sandrine Testud 6-2. 6-1 In 59 minutes.
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