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Fifth Siebel Open title for Agassi
San Jose (California), Feb 17: Andre Agassi won 12 of the last 14 games to beat Davide Sanguinetti 6-3, 6-1 and capture the Siebel Open for the fifth time.
San Jose (California), Feb 17: Andre Agassi won 12 of the last 14 games to beat Davide Sanguinetti 6-3, 6-1 and capture the Siebel Open for the fifth time.
After losing the first two games of the match, Agassi lost just one more game in the first set. He won the first three games of the second set before Sanguinetti held serve, then Agassi won three straight games to claim his 56th career title yesterday.
"For me, this feeling only gets better," Agassi told spectators before accepting his trophy. Sanguinetti, a University of California, Los Angeles alumnus seeking his third career title, spent much of the match shrugging his shoulders and complaining about line calls. At one point he asked chair umpire Steve Ullrich: ``Do you want a pillow?''
Sanguinetti, an Italian ranked 69th in the world and seeded sixth here, opened the match by holding serve and then took a 2-0 lead when Agassi double faulted on game point.
But Agassi responded by winning three straight games, including a pair of service breaks. After falling behind 3-2, Sanguinetti looked at coach Roberto Brogin and shrugged as if wondering, "What can I do?"
"I thought he was going to miss a little bit more, but he didn't miss at all," Sanguinetti said. "I said sooner or later he's going to miss, but the time didn't come.
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After losing the first two games of the match, Agassi lost just one more game in the first set. He won the first three games of the second set before Sanguinetti held serve, then Agassi won three straight games to claim his 56th career title yesterday.
"For me, this feeling only gets better," Agassi told spectators before accepting his trophy. Sanguinetti, a University of California, Los Angeles alumnus seeking his third career title, spent much of the match shrugging his shoulders and complaining about line calls. At one point he asked chair umpire Steve Ullrich: ``Do you want a pillow?''
Sanguinetti, an Italian ranked 69th in the world and seeded sixth here, opened the match by holding serve and then took a 2-0 lead when Agassi double faulted on game point.
But Agassi responded by winning three straight games, including a pair of service breaks. After falling behind 3-2, Sanguinetti looked at coach Roberto Brogin and shrugged as if wondering, "What can I do?"
"I thought he was going to miss a little bit more, but he didn't miss at all," Sanguinetti said. "I said sooner or later he's going to miss, but the time didn't come.
Bureau Report