THE Agassi Express just keeps rolling along on the ATP Tour.
Top seed Andre Agassi, winner of the last two Grand Slam tennis
tournaments and 31 of his last 33 matches, pounded out a 7-6 (7-4), 6-2
victory over unseeded German Marc Goellner to reach the quarter-finals
of the San Jose Open in California.
Agassi, the world's second ranked player, countered Goellner's barrage
of 12 aces with a relentless groundstroking game and punishing service
returns.
Third seed Jim Courier had an easier time as he swept past Nicolas
Pereira of Venezuela
6-4, 6-1 in 62 minutes to join Agassi in the quarter-finals, and now
meets fellow American Jim Grabb, a 7-5, 6-7, 6-3 surprise winner over
sixth seed Patrick McEnroe.
Top seed Boris Becker fought back from losing a marathon 24-point,
second set tie-break -- in which he squandered six match points -- to
beat fellow German Joern Renzenbrink 7-6 (7-1), 6-7
(11-13), 6-2 in the Marseille men's indoor tournament yesterday.
Why are you making commenting on The Herald only available to subscribers?
It should have been a safe space for informed debate, somewhere for readers to discuss issues around the biggest stories of the day, but all too often the below the line comments on most websites have become bogged down by off-topic discussions and abuse.
heraldscotland.com is tackling this problem by allowing only subscribers to comment.
We are doing this to improve the experience for our loyal readers and we believe it will reduce the ability of trolls and troublemakers, who occasionally find their way onto our site, to abuse our journalists and readers. We also hope it will help the comments section fulfil its promise as a part of Scotland's conversation with itself.
We are lucky at The Herald. We are read by an informed, educated readership who can add their knowledge and insights to our stories.
That is invaluable.
We are making the subscriber-only change to support our valued readers, who tell us they don't want the site cluttered up with irrelevant comments, untruths and abuse.
In the past, the journalist’s job was to collect and distribute information to the audience. Technology means that readers can shape a discussion. We look forward to hearing from you on heraldscotland.com
Comments & Moderation
Readers’ comments: You are personally liable for the content of any comments you upload to this website, so please act responsibly. We do not pre-moderate or monitor readers’ comments appearing on our websites, but we do post-moderate in response to complaints we receive or otherwise when a potential problem comes to our attention. You can make a complaint by using the ‘report this post’ link . We may then apply our discretion under the user terms to amend or delete comments.
Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours.
Read the rules hereComments are closed on this article