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Unfinished business and leading men Monday Sunday, May 29, 2005 The rain delay means yet more exciting action Monday. Maria Sharapova and Rafael Nadal will look to conclude, while Justine Henin-Hardenne will have been glad of the extra day off before taking on Svetlana Kuznetsova. Among the men, a bunch of serious contenders for the title, including Gaston Gaudio, Guillermo Coria and Marat Safin will be battling it out for a place in the last eight. Read on for a (p)review of the matches still to be finished, and still to come Monday.
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Merciless Federer sinks diminished Moya Sunday, May 29, 2005 Top seed Roger Federer enjoyed a cakewalk on Sunday, barely breaking a sweat to dismiss Spanish No14 seed Carlos Moya and slide into the quarter finals for the second time in his career. The 23-year-old top seeded Swiss showed no mercy in his 6-1, 6-4, 6-3 dismantling of his 28-year-old opponent, who, because of an ailing right shoulder, opposed little resistance in the 1 hour and forty-two minute contest. "I noticed straight away he had a problem," Federer said. "He couldn't play 100%. It was very obvious to me. So for me it's very hard to kind of say how well I played. It's not possible just because I knew in how much sort of pain he was and that he was far off from 100%." "For me it was all about kind of being focused, try not to make many errors and try to use the advantage that he couldn't serve, to break him and kind of get to him mentally," added the Swiss , who has now equalled his best showing here. In six visits to the claycourt showpiece, Federer has never got beyond the quarter-finals (2001) and lost in the first round three times (1999, 2002 and 2003). Next up for the genial Swiss is Romanian Victor Hanescu, a surprise five-set winner over Argentina's David Nalbandian earlier on Sunday. Moya, whose right shoulder has bothered him for weeks, had a dreadful day at the office, unable to defend his chances against the Swiss ace. Incapable of serving at full pace and deprived of dictating the play with his customary penetrating forehand, Moya was a pale shadow of the player who dazzled the Parisian crowd in 1998 en route to his first and only Grand Slam triumph. Federer has yet to drop a set in four matches here and got off to a flying start again, breaking the Spaniard two times (second and sixth games) to run away with the first set. The second set came equally as easily for Federer, who took his opponent's delivery in the third game. He secured the set six games later on his serve to go up two sets to love. The 15-ranked Moya, making his tenth appearance at the French, boasted a 26-8 record entering the match, but literally disintegrated as the match went on. The Iberian conceded his serve in the first and third game to fall behind 4-0, attempted a late surge by cutting the lead to 4-3 but was sent packing two games later when the Swiss forced him to miss yet another shot. In the following days, Moya will undergo treatment on his ailing shoulder and said he will not make the trip at the All-England Club next June if his shoulder isn't fully recovered. "I have to see how it's going to react the next days," Moya said. "What I know is that I'm going to need to rest a little bit, to recover the shoulder, and if it's not hundred percent, I won't play."
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Heroic Davenport storms back to upend Clijsters Sunday, May 29, 2005 Top ranked Lindsay Davenport scored perhaps her biggest win at Roland Garros by coming back from a set and a break down to upend 2003 finalist Kim Clijsters 1-6, 7-5, 6-3 and reach the quarterfinals on Thursday. In an inspiring performance from the 28-year-old American, Davenport never lost her composure despite being run off the court in the first set and falling behind 1-3 in the second set. Once she got control of her forehand, began to spot her serve better and return deeper, Davenport regained her confidence. For her part, Clijsters lost all consistency on her serve, cracked her racket on the court a number of times after failing to put in returns of serve and flubbed forehand after forehand. Clijsters did manage to fight off a set at 5-5 in the second set by booming an ace, but on Davenport's third set point at 6-5, the Belgian erred on an inside out forehand. Clijsters then essentially collapsed in the third set, double faulting to go down 0-2. She attempted to get Davenport moving again and did mange to break her back to 2-1 when she retrieved a hard forehand, but never again found her consistency. Clijsters - who ended the contest with 11 double faults - was broke to 4-1 when a charged up Davenport passed her with a backhand down the line. She broke Davenport back again to 4-3, but was broken again to 5-3 when she double faulted again. Davenport then won the match when Clijsters flew a forehand long. "She's been winning ugly at this tournament," said Davenport's coach, Adam Peterson. "She's showed glimpses of great tennis and sub par tennis, but she's digging deep." Davenport, who has only reached the semifinals once here, broke a six match-losing streak against Clijsters. She didn't play any European clay court warm-up tournaments coming into the tournament, but arrived in shape and ready to scrape out matches. "I just have tried every single match to stay in there, regardless of the circumstances, and regardless that it's my least favorite surface," said Davenport, who has won four straight three setters. "No matter what had happened today, I felt like hanging in there is going to help me in the long run, and it helped me out sooner than I thought it would. I feel really proud of myself." Peterson said that although Davenport's body language can at times be negative, inside she's staying positive. Almost no one gave the slow-moving number one a serious chance coming into the tournament, but Davenport has big enough weapons and the know-how to win anywhere she plays. "It's fun, whether it looks like it or not. I'm definitely trying my hardest out here," said Davenport, who will play the winner of the match between Mary Pierce and Patty Schnyder. "And with the expectations, I would never set them so high here. I've never been in the finals here or had chances to win. I've been in the semis, but I think it would be a little crazy for me to expect to come in here and win. I expect and hope to play well and see what happens. But this surface, more than any other, I can control the least with my game. But it hasn't deterred me from trying to do the best I can." Clijsters, who suffered a right knee injury three weeks ago, wouldn't blame the injury for her defeat, but it was clear in the third set that she couldn't push off on her serve or handle wide forehands. "Tennis can change so quickly," she said. "The frustrating part is that I was controlling the rallies in the first and beginning of the second set. Then all of a sudden, you just lose all the feeling of your strokes. The most frustrating part of it is that I was trying to work, work into my rallies. I have to try to stay positive and work my way through these tougher times." Bulgarian 15-year-old Sesil Karatantcheva continued her surprising run, knocking off Emmanuelle Gagliardi 7-5, 6-3. Karatantcheva, who won the junior crown here last year, had upset Venus Williams in the third round and will play Russian Elena Likhovtseva, who edged compatriot Elena Dementieva 7-6, 5-7, 7-5. "I was basically scared to win," Karatantcheva said. "The thought of me being at the quarterfinals in Paris, it was just too scary. I don't think I'm playing as well because I guess the pressure really is getting me. But I really hope that for my quarters I'll be more relaxed."
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©Sony Ericsson WTA Tour Paris, France: World No.1 Lindsay Davenport during a television after defeating claycourt specialist Kim Clijsters for a spot in the quarterfinals
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©Sony Ericsson WTA Tour Paris, France: Of the six Russians in the last 16, Elena Likhovtseva was the first to reach the quarterfinals by defeating compatriot and last year's finalist Elena Dementieva
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The Teen Brigade In rain-delayed fourth round matches, 17-year-old Ana Ivanovic (left) and Maria Sharapova, 18, have defeated Francesca Schiavone and Nuria Llagostera Vives respectively on Monday, advancing to the Roland Garros quarterfinals. Svetlana Kuznetsova, 19, is hoping to fill the last quarterfinal spot as she takes on 2003 champion Justine Henin-Hardenne. Five berths in the last eight were filled on Sunday before the rain came, with Lindsay Davenport, Mary Pierce, Elena Likhovtseva, Sesil Karatantcheva and Nadia Petrova advancing to Tuesday's quarterfinal round.
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CONFERENCE FINALS PHOENIX (1) vs. SAN ANTONIO (2) Gm 1: SAS 121, PHO 114 | 300k | Post. Gm 2: SAS 111, PHO 108 | 300k | Post. Gm 3: SAS 102, PHO 92 | 300k | Post. Gm 4: at SAS, Mon., May 30, 8:30, ABC *Gm 5: at PHO, Wed., June 1, 9:00, ESPN *Gm 6: at SAS, Fri., June 3, 9:00, ESPN *Gm 7: at PHO, Sun., June 5, 8:30, ABC MIAMI (1) vs. DETROIT (2) Gm 1: DET 90, MIA 81 | 300k | Postgame Gm 2: MIA 92, DET 86 | 300k | Postgame Gm 3: MIA 113, DET 104 | 300k | Post. Gm 4: at DET, Tue., May 31, 8:00, TNT Gm 5: at MIA, Thu., June 2, 8:00, TNT *Gm 6: at DET, Sat., June 4, 8:00, TNT *Gm 7: at MIA, Mon., June 6, 8:00, TNT
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