BRIEFLY : AGASSI UPSET IN QUARTERS.Andre Agassi's strong performance at the RCA See RCA connector and video/TV history. Championships in Indianapolis came to an end Friday with a 6-3, 5-7, 6-3 quarterfinal loss to unseeded Mark Woodforde of Australia. Agassi, seeded 14th and playing in his first ATP ATP: see adenosine triphosphate. ATP in full adenosine triphosphate Organic compound, substrate in many enzyme-catalyzed reactions (see catalysis) in the cells of animals, plants, and microorganisms. quarterfinals since mid-February, couldn't recover from Woodforde's 19 aces and strong forehand forehand the head, neck, shoulders, withers and forelimbs of the horse. . Petr Korda, on the verge On the Verge (or The Geography of Yearning) is a play written by Eric Overmyer. It makes extensive use of esoteric language and pop culture references from the late nineteenth century to 1955. of becoming another upset victim of David Wheaton, fended off three break points and four match points to advance to the semifinals of the Pilot Pen International in New Haven, Conn. Korda, the No. 5 seed, was facing elimination on his serve in the final game of the second set before he rallied for 4-6, 7-6 (9-7), 6-4 victory that spoiled an inspired run by the unseeded Wheaton, the last remaining American. Of the top six seeds, only Monica Seles made it to the semifinals at the du Maurier Open in Toronto. Seles took only 42 minutes to dispatch Italy's Rita Grande 6-0, 6-0 to set up a semifinal meeting today against seventh-seeded Conchita Martinez. Martinez defeated No. 4 seed Lindsay Davenport 6-4, 4-6, 6-2. The other semifinal will pit Anke Huber of Germany against Mary Joe Fernandez. Huber defeated third-seeded Amanda Coetzer of South Africa, 2-6, 6-1, 6-4, and Fernandez, the 10th seed, ousted unseeded Magdalena Maleeva of Bulgaria 6-2, 6-7 (3-7), 6-4. Three weeks ago, Martinez defeated Seles for the first time ever with a 7-6, 6-4 win in the quarterfinals of a tournament at Stanford. ``My game is really high in confidence and I'm going to try and play like I did three weeks ago,'' Martinez said. ``Everybody has their game and I have to play mine and try to mix it up a bit.'' MOTOR SPORTS: Johnny Benson won the pole for Sunday's DeVilbiss 400 at Michigan Speedway in Brooklyn, Mich., by turning a lap at 183.332 mph in his Pontiac Grand Prix The Pontiac Grand Prix is an automobile produced by the Pontiac division of General Motors. First introduced as part of Pontiac's full-size model offering for the 1962 model year, the Grand Prix name has also been applied to cars in the personal luxury car market segment and the . It was the second Winston Cup pole for Benson, in his second Cup season after winning the 1995 NASCAR NASCAR (National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing), organization that sanctions American stock-car races, est. 1948. It held its first race in Daytona Beach, Fla. Busch Grand National title. Starting next to Benson will be Mark Martin's Ford Thunderbird (182.945 mph), owned by Northville's Jack Roush. Row 2 will be the Chevrolet Monte Carlo The Chevrolet Monte Carlo was an American mid-size car. Originally introduced by Chevrolet for the 1970 model year (as competition with the Ford Thunderbird), it has gone through six generations as of 2007. of Ricky Craven (182.927) and the Thunderbird of Dale Jarrett (182.764). ETC ETC - ExTendible Compiler. Fortran-like, macro extendible. "ETC - An Extendible Macro-Based Compiler", B.N. Dickman, Proc SJCC 38 (1971). .: Family members and hundreds of close friends gathered at a funeral service in Baltimore for Rex Barney, the former Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher and Orioles announcer who was found dead in his home Tuesday. He was 72. . . . Four-time Olympic medalist Bruce Baumgartner will take over as acting athletic director at Edinboro until the school finds a replacement for Jody Mooradian. Baumgartner has coached wrestling at Edinboro for seven years. CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: Andre Agassi lost to Mark Woodforde in the RCA Championships Associated Press |
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