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Kafelnikov off the mark
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PARIS. May 26: So far. so good. Top-seeded Pete Sampras won his first-round match at the French Open Monday, taking a step toward winning the one Grand Slam title that eludes him. reports AP.
Sampras defeated France's Fabrice Santoro in straight sets. 6-3, 7-5. 6-1. After a hard-fought second set. he dominated the final set, closing it out with a service break. He never lost serve.
Four other American women scored first-round victories Monday. Fifth-seeded Lindsay Davenport defeated South African Joannette'Kuger 6-2, 63. Unseeded Chanda Rubin beat Argentina's Marinana DiazOliva 7-6 (7-5). 7-5. Amy Frazier and Nicole Arendt also won. .
Spaniard Alex Corretja beat Morocco's Kalim Alami. 6-3, 64,6-1.***
PARIS. May 26: Yevgeny Kafelnikov began the defence of his French Open title Monday with a straight-set victory and 16-year-old Venus Williams began her Grand Slam career with a hard-fought three-set win, reports AP.
Kafelnikov defeated Martin Damm of the Czech Republic 62, 6-4, 6-4, showing little effect of the broken finger he suffered while hitting a punching bag in
January.
It was the first match he had won at a Grand Slam tournament since his French Open victory last year.
'To be honest. I didn’t feel I played well, but I played good enough to win." Kafelnikov said. H felt a lot of pressure."
The unseeded Williams, the new great American, hope in women’s tennis, won her first match abroad by defeating Japan’s Naoko Sawamatsu 6-2, 6-7 (2-7). 7-5 in a match that lasted 2 hours 37 minutes.
In the hard-fought third set,
Williams was down a break at 3-1. She broke back for 3-2 then broke again at 5-4. She double faulted twice while trying to serve out the match, allowing Sawamatsu to event it at 5-5.
Williams broke back at 6-5 and this time served out the match.
The crowd gave her a huge ovation as she walked off court.
Two other American women scored first round victories Monday. Fifth-seeded Lindsay Davenport defeated South African Joannette Kruger 6-2. 6-3. Unseeded Chanda Rubin beat Argentina's Marinana Diaz-Oliva 7-6 (7-5). 7-5.
In other first round action,
— Monica Seles, who has yet to rediscover her championship form, faced Miho Saeki of Japan.
— Austria's Thomas Muster, seeded lilth and slumping badly on clay this season, faced Germany's Marc-Kevin Goellner.
— Carlos, Moya, one of six seeded Spaniards, faced fellow Spaniard Alberto, Martin, while compatriot Alex Corretja opened against Morocco's Karim Alami.
Meanwhile the 16-year-old Martina Hingis was her usual laughing, confident self — despite the knee surgery she went through five weeks ago after falling off a horse.
The Swiss star asked for and got an extra day to practice; she plays her first-round- match Tuesday, against Slovakia’s Ilenrieta Nagyova.
Another player that gets to rest Monday is Steffi Graf. The second-seeded Graf, a five-time champion at Roland Garros, couldn t have sounded more dif f^rent from the confident Hingis at their news conferences Sunday.
"Obviously I’m not at my best." Graf said. "I realise that now in the past two weeks, I miss at times my confidence. I probably need a couple more weeks to be in the shape that I want to be."
By then Hingis could be riding off into the sunset with a second Grand Slam title or she may at least be riding. She Sunday she had been invited by Pierre Durand, the French Olympic gold medalist in show jumping to get back on a horse next week.