BRIEFLY : NO. 1 GRAF SUFFERS UPSET TO 15-YEAR-OLD HINGIS.Steffi Graf Noun 1. Steffi Graf - German tennis player who won seven women's singles titles at Wimbledon (born in 1969) Graf, Stephanie Graf was ousted Friday from the Italian Open Italian Open may refer to:
Hingis won the quarterfinal match 2-6, 6-2, 6-3, sending Graf to her first tournament loss in seven months and her first on clay since the 1994 French Open. ``I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. what happened out there,'' Graf confessed after a frustrating afternoon marked by error and indecision. Another upset victim was No. 3 seed Arantxa Sanchez Vicario, who fell to No. 7 Irina Spirlea of Romania 6-4, 6-3. Spirlea will meet Hingis in one of today's semifinals. In the other, No. 2 seed Conchita Martinez, seeking a record fourth consecutive Italian title, will face No. 4 Iva Majoli, a 6-4, 6-1 winner over Nathalie Tauziat in a night match. Martinez needed three sets to get by No. 5 Magdalena Maleeva 6-1, 2-6, 6-1 for the Spaniard's 18th straight win on the Foro Italico courts. Mats Wilander rallied from a set down to defeat Vincent Spadea and earn a spot in the semifinals of the U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships The U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships is an annual ATP Tour tennis tournament held in Houston, Texas. It is the last remaining ATP Tour-level tournament in the United States to be played on clay courts. The tournament has been held since 1910 in various locations across the USA. at Pinehurst, N.C. Wilander was his best at counterpunching after surviving Spadea's overpowering start. He frustrated the 21-year-old American on his way to a 1-6, 6-3, 6-2 victory. Wilander, seeking his first tournament title in six years, will be joined in the semifinals by Javier Frana, Jason Stoltenberg and Fernando Meligeni. Meligeni survived a match point for the second straight match in outlasting Patrick Rafter 3-6, 7-6 (9-7), 6-3. Frana, the No. 5 seed and the 1995 runner-up, needed a third-set tiebreaker tie·break·er n. An additional contest or period of play designed to establish a winner among tied contestants. Also called tiebreak. tie to dispose of To determine the fate of; to exercise the power of control over; to fix the condition, application, employment, etc. of; to direct or assign for a use. See also: Dispose Jonas Bjorkman 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (7-4), while the sixth-seeded Stoltenberg blistered fourth-seeded Richey Reneberg with a tournament-high 11 aces on his way to a 6-4, 7-5 victory. FOOTBALL The Canadian Football League's flagging flagship franchise signed the league's marquee player when the Toronto Argonauts gave quarterback Doug Flutie a package of incentives, signing bonuses and a personal-services agreement that reportedly could net him nearly $2 million over two years. BASKETBALL Chicago Bulls assistant coach Jim Cleamons was fined $2,500 by the NBA NBA abbr. 1. National Basketball Association 2. National Boxing Association NBA (US) n abbr (= National Basketball Association) → Basketball-Dachverband (= for his actions during Game 2 of the Eastern Conference semifinals with the New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Knicks - initiating a shouting match with Knicks center Patrick Ewing in the game Tuesday night. June Daugherty, the women's basketball coach at Boise State for the past seven years, was named to replace Chris Gobrecht at the University of Washington. OLYMPICS Two yachting classes for the U.S. Olympic team appeared to be settled, with Courtenay Becker-Dey of The Dalles dalles pl.n. The rapids of a river that runs between the steep precipices of a gorge or narrow valley. [French, pl. of dalle, gutter, from Old French, from Old Norse dæla.] , Ore., building a seven-point lead in the Europe Class and Kristina Stookey of Darien, Conn., and Louise Van Voorhis of Rochester, N.Y., holding the same lead in the women's 470 Class. Kevin Hall of Ventura showed no signs of the dehydration that forced him out of Thursday's second race. He finished sixth and third in the two races but was 42 points behind the leader, Nick Adamson of Newport Beach, in the Laser Class. ETC ETC - ExTendible Compiler. Fortran-like, macro extendible. "ETC - An Extendible Macro-Based Compiler", B.N. Dickman, Proc SJCC 38 (1971). . Chris Horner, a first-year pro from San Diego, edged veteran Nate Reiss of Fort Collins, Colo., by inches to win the closest stage of the Tour DuPont, which ended the day in Greenville, S.C. Lance Armstrong kept his leader's jersey for the ninth day. . . . Jody Robinson, head baseball coach at Loyola Marymount for the past five seasons, announced his resignation. Robinson, a former assistant at Cal State Northridge, compiled an overall record of 109-171. . . . Outfielder Mark Kotsay of Cal State Fullerton was named Big West Conference baseball player of the year for the second consecutive year. Marcus Jones of Long Beach State was named pitcher of the year. Long Beach's Dave Snow and UC Santa Barbara's Bob Brontsema shared coach of the year honors. CAPTION(S): Photo PHOTO MARTINA HINGIS The 15-year-old prodigy from Switzerla nd earned perhaps the biggest victory of her career. |
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