DAVENPORT BEATS COETZER, GETS ANOTHER SHOT AT GRAF.Lindsay Davenport Lindsay Ann Davenport (born June 8 1976 in Palos Verdes, California) is a former World No. 1 American professional female tennis champion. She has won three Grand Slam singles tournaments: the 1998 U.S. Open, 1999 Wimbledon, and the 2000 Australian Open. won the Olympic gold Olympic Gold is the official video game of the XXV Olympic Summer Games, hosted by Barcelona, Spain in 1992. It was released for the Sega consoles, Mega Drive/Genesis and Master System, and Sega's handheld, Game Gear. medal for the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. (and herself), but she did it while Steffi Graf sat out because of an injury.Today in the semifinals of the Acura Classic in Manhattan Beach, the 20-year-old from Newport Beach will get a shot at the world No. 1. (Make that another shot. Davenport is 0-4 against Graf, but she did play a close three-setter with her earlier this year at Indian Wells.) No. 4-seed Davenport earned her way into the semifinals by beating fifth-seed Amanda Coetzer of South Africa 6-4, 4-6, 6-3 Friday night. Graf won her quarterfinal match the night before and has had a day off to take it easy. Davenport had some serving problems against Coetzer - ``My toss was all over the place'' - but overpowered o·ver·pow·er tr.v. o·ver·pow·ered, o·ver·pow·er·ing, o·ver·pow·ers 1. To overcome or vanquish by superior force; subdue. 2. To affect so strongly as to make helpless or ineffective; overwhelm. 3. her opponent in the third set. ``It's tough to do much with a shot that's coming at you that hard and that deep,'' said Coetzer. |
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