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Thursday, April 16, 1998
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Paes overcomes Cowan and Thomas
Top seed Leander Paes made it to the round of eight and had his ranking on the ATP computer shrunk to two digits, after making the second straight quarter-finals in singles, in the ATP Challenger. He first got over his unfinished first round match against Barry Cowan (6-4, 3-6, 6-3) and then beat the towering American Jim Thomas 6-2, 7-5.
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MaCphie rocks Rafter
Tournament favourite Patrick Rafter was the biggest casualty in the Japan Open tennis yesterday crashing to a shock straight sets defeat. The top-seeded Australian was subjected to an array of aces and lightning service-return winners by 181st-ranked American Brian MaCphie before losing 3-6 6-7 (4-7).
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Yuhua emerges sole leader
Former Asian Junior girls champion and top seed IWM Xu Yuhua of China emerged sole leader with five points at the end of sixth round of the Asian Women Chess championship being played at Awana Resorts, Kuala Lumpur. The only Grandmaster in the field, Eva Repkova adopted French defence against experienced Bhagyashri Thipsay (3.5).
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Aussies confident
A sleepy, yet confident Australian captain Steve Waugh said, on arrival at the Dubai airport yesterday, that he hopes to add the Coca Cola Cup to the one-day triangular series win in India. "We want to continue from where we left in India and go on to win this tournament too," Waugh said adding, "we have played too much cricket over the past few months and seem to be peaking at the right time."
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