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Top-seeded Andre Agassi had his toughest match of the tournament, holding off No. 4 Todd Martin 6-4, 7-6 (7-5) in the semifinals of the Legg Mason Tennis Classic in Washington D.C., and earning a date with second-seeded Stefan Edberg, who defeated No. 13 Patrick Rafter of Australia 7-5, 5-7, 6-2. … Nigel Benn shook off six rounds of a tough challenge from Vincenzo Nardiello with two rounds of powerful punching to retain his WBC super-middleweight title by eighth-round knockout in London. Nate Miller rallied to win his first world title, taking Orlin Norris’s WBA cruiserweight crown with an eighth-round knockout on the undercard.