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BELGRADE: Serbia's Ana Ivanovic has named Australian Damian Prasad as her full-time fitness trainer, the former world number one said on her official website yesterday.

Ranked No 1 in the world he may be, but Gustavo Kuerten found out yesterday that the Champions' Race 2000 is one thing, the race to be Wimbledon champion 2000 is quite another.

During his latest triumphal procession, it was only when Rafael Nadal stumbled that he was truly revealed.

How hard is Steffi's forehand these days?" your correspondent asked Andre Agassi after the world's No 1 tennis player had spent 20 minutes practising with Steffi Graf on the Centre Court at the Schleyer Halle in Stuttgart.

Having wiped the slate clean of so many errors of judgement from his callow days, the 32-year-old Andre Agassi has created an opportunity to put the record straight at the Italian Open when he plays Tommy Haas, of Germany, in the final here today.

Seeking something different to mark his 30th birthday yesterday, Tim Henman chose to try to advance to the quarter-finals at the US Open for the first time in his career.

Ivan Ljubicic won his first ATP World Tour title in Lyon in 2001. Veteran Croatian Ivan Ljubicic , who has faced just two break points in four matches this week, powered into the Lyon final with another crushing serving performance Saturday at the Grand Prix de Tennis de Lyon , an ATP World Tour 250 tennis tournament.

Third seed Ivan Ljubicic , the 2001 champion, fired 27 aces past Nicolas Kiefer in a 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 win at the Grand Prix de Tennis de Lyon on Thursday.A Ljubicic converted two of 11 break point opportunities to extend his record to 4-0 over No.

Third-seeded Ivan Ljubicic of Croatia reached the quarterfinals of the Lyon Grand Prix on Thursday by beating Nicolas Kiefer of Germany 6-3, 3-6, 6-3. Ljubicic, the 2001 Lyon champion, served 27 aces and broke his opponent twice to extend his perfect record against Kiefer to 4-0. Ljubicic will face Florent Serra of France in his eighth quarterfinal ...

Fifth-seeded Julien Benneteau of France beat qualifier Kevin Anderson 7-5, 6-2 to reach the quarterfinals of the Lyon Grand Prix on Wednesday.

Wayne Odesnik made a memorable Moscow debut today. The 91st-ranked lefthander broke serve six times and fought off a match point in the second set to surprise second-seeded Victor Hanescu, 5-7, 7-5, 6-4, in a two hour, 15-minute opening-round match at the Kremlin Cup.

Emerging glamour girl Sabine Lisicki and world No.22 Philipp Kohlschreiber will team up for Germany at January's Hopman Cup $1 million ITF mixed teams event in Perth.

CHAMPION: US Open winner Juan Martin del Potro. GOOD SPORTS: Juan Martin del Potro after preventing Roger Federer from winning his sixth straight US Open.

RAFA Nadal, in the patois of Possil, would not show you a birda s nest. He is gracious, charming and friendly.

RAFAEL NADAL and Fernando Gonzalez were held up by rain as they attempted to finish their US Open quarter-final at Flushing Meadows and book a semi-final against Juan Martin del Potro.

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Bernard Tomic has joined an elite group including Andy Roddick and Stefan Edberg to have completed the Australian Open-US Open junior grand slam double with an emphatic victory in the boys' final in New York.

While Rafael Nadal, left, took a medical timeout to have an abdominal strain treated, a trainer worked on Nicolas Almagro's back on Sunday.

Play was twice suspended last night as rain disrupted the tournament for the first time in 11 days of play.

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