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Dutchman stuns Goran
MASON, Ohio. Aug 8: Unseeded Jan Slemerink of the Netherlands knocked off third-ranked Goran Iv-
anisevic of Croatia on Thursday night in the biggest upset of the week at the 2.3 million dollars ATP Championship, reports AP.
Siemerink took 1 hour 13 minutes to beat Ivanisevic 6-4. 6-4 to advance to Friday's quarterfinals. He did It by frustrating Ivanisevic's big serve.
Ivanisevic served lust eight aces; he has averaged 14 1/2 per match this year.
In other third-round matches Thursday, top-ranked Wimbledon champion Pete Sampras beat loth-seeded Patrick Rafter of Australia 7-6. 6-4; second-ranked Michael Chang rallied from a listless first set to beat Andrei Medvedev of Ukraine 3-6. 6-1. 6-4: fifth-seeded Thomas Muster of Austria defeated Martin Damm of the Czech Republic 6-3, 3-6. 7-5; and 10th-seeded Gustavo Kuerten of Brazil, the French Open champion. beat Vince Spadea 6-7. 6-
3,6-4.
Also, seventh-seeded Yevgeny Kafelnikov of Russia defeated No. 9 Marcelo Rios of Chile 7-5, 6-2, Albert Costa of Spain upset fourth-seeded coun-tryman Alex Corretja 6-1, 7-6, and No. 6 Sergi Bruguera of Spain downed Jiri Novak of the Czech Republic 7-6, 6-3.
Six of the eight players in the quarterfinals are ranked in the Top 10 on the ATP Tour: Sampras (1); Chang (2); Muster (4); Kafelnikov (6); Bruguera (8); and Kuerten (10). Costa is 17th and Siemerink 36th.
Muster, a clay court specialist, continued his improving hard court campaign with the victory over Damm.
He knows that clay is kinder to his surgically repaired left knee. He also knows he can't win enough points on clay to move up in the standings.
Muster has won twice as many clay court titles as any other active player. But his hard court career has been compromised since 1989 when a drunk driver struck his ^rked car- crashing it into his
Now. at 29. he feels an urgency to press his game on the hard courts.
1 cannot play on clay — 1 cannot get my ranking where 1 want it to be." he said. "I know I can play well on clay anytime I want to go back ... but I don't want to move back. I want to go ahead.”
Muster has been ranked No. 1 only briefly, twice early last year before the tennis world moved from clay to the summer hard court tour. But he has reoriented his entire approach to the game.
"All the basics of my success come from clay, but it might have just moved a little bit. my philosophy of approaching the game." Muster said. "1 said 1 want to play well on hard courts and I have got to do something in that way. I Just oriented my game in that direction."
The Great American Insurance ATP Championship is a Mercedes Super 9 tournament, one of only three played in the United States. Among American tournaments, only the US Open and the Lipton Championships at Key Biscayne, Florida. offer more money.