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Agassi, Rafter on course
LONDON. July 5: Andre Agassi of the United States, the number two seed, remained on course for his
second Wimbledon singles crown Wednesday when he defeated Australian 10th seed Mark Philippoussls 7-6. 6-3, 6-4 in I hr 58mln to reach the semifinals, reports AFP.
Agassi, beaten by Pete Sampras in last year's final, now faces Australian 12th seed Pat Rafter, who earlier beat Germany's Alexander Popp 6-3, 6-2. 7-6 in Ihr 48min.
Friday’s tic will be a re-run of last year's semifinal, which Agassi won in straight sets.
The shaven-headed Las Vegan turned In an awesome lesson of grass court tennis — though he made the Centre Court crowd wait at the end. double faulting on triple match point.
The tension broke seconds later, however, as a dejected Philippoussls fired into the tramlines to finish well beaten.
Agassi treated the first few games of the encounter as sparring practice and had to save a break point at 2-3 in (he opening set.
Two games later a wonderful passing shot gave him one of Ills own which Philippoussls saved with one of his trademark monster senes to hold for 4-3.
Philippoussls, who came into the match on the back of a record 5hr Imin third-round win over Dutchman SJcng Schalken and a five-setter
against British eighth seed Tim Henman, started brightly enough — but it was all downhill afterwards.
"Andre Is such a great frontrunner.” said Philippoussls. "When he plays with confidence he's very hard to beat. I'm not ashamed of the way I played today I can hold my head up high. If one or two points had gone my way it would have been a different match."
Several running forehands showed his game is not just about a howitzer of a sen e top-
195 kph.
n the first set tiebreak, however. Agassi started to wear him down.
The contrast in styles between the two men was evidenced by a brilliant Agassi lob which clipped the line — Philippoussls responding with his seventh ace.
The Australian, nicknamed Scud, would win the ace count 22-7 — but made 53 unforced errors to Agassi's 38.
A brilliant Agassi forehand return on a serve which was massive even by Philippoussls' standards brought the American a mini-break for 5-3.
Given three set points to play with, Agassi slapped a forehand return into the net on the first but the Las Vegan's first ace of the match brought him the set.
Agassi, title winner here eight years ago. was producing his whole repertoire of shots — a series of running lobs among his favourites — and took command in the second set
Philippoussls needed three aces to level at 2-2 but he was
increasingly coming under pressure as Agassi began to give him the run-around before breaking in the seventh game as (he Australian hit two double faults.
Agassi then had to dig deep to save two break points but a vicious forehand drive wrong-footed him. meaning he had to save a third. He got back to deuce and an ace and a brilliant forehand down the line gave him the set.
Philippoussls fell over on the rain-moistened turf as he tried to hold for 2-1 in the third but Agassi passed him to break and then held to love to motor into a 3-1 lead.
Philippoussls, who li.id a I -3 career record against Hie American before Wednesday's match, held but then spurned a break point — his fifth of the match with all going begging. Agassi s final ratio in crucial contrast was two from four.
Defending champion Pete Sampras followed Agassi onto Centre Court to face unseeded fellow American Jan Mickael Gambill while qualifier Vladimir Voltchkov of Belanis was facing Zimbabwe s Byron Black, another non-seed. on Court One.
Rafter, who has yet to meet a seeded player, warmed up for Agassi as he raced past Popp
The Queenslander stormed into 4-1 leads in the opening two sets — the first took Just 31 min — as Popp, playing In only his second Grand Slam event, failed to mask his nervousness.