Agassi Moves To Quarters

Fri., Aug. 9, 1996

Compiled From Wire Services

Andre Agassi again needed three sets, but advanced to the quarterfinals of the ATP Championship by beating Alex O’Brien 6-7 (7-5), 6-3, 6-0 at Mason, Ohio.

In two matches suspended during a midafternoon thunderstorm, third-seeded Michael Chang defeated Cristiano Caratti 7-6 (7-3), 6-2 and ninth-seeded Wayne Ferreira beat No. 8 Jim Courier 7-6 (11-9), 6-7 (7-4), 6-2.

Agassi, the defending ATP titlist, needed three sets to beat unheralded Magnus Larsson Wednesday. O’Brien, a tournament qualifier, had advanced to the round of 16 when MaliVai Washington withdrew with a back injury.

Agassi broke his racket in disgust after losing the first-set tiebreaker and became visibly more agressive with a new racket. He broke O’Brien’s serve in game four of the second set and served out relentlessly, if uneventfully.

In matches completed before the rain, second-seeded Thomas Muster, No. 4 Yevgeny Kafelnikov and No. 5 Goran Ivanisevic advanced.

Arantxa Sanchez Vicario won despite a bad elbow, but a hip injury proved too much for Jennifer Capriati in the du Maurier Open tennis tournament at Montreal.

Sanchez Vicario was treated early in her match for a stretched muscle in her right elbow, but bounced back to defeat 10thseeded Amanda Coetzer of South Africa 7-5, 6-1. Capriati, in her first tournament since the French Open in May, retired in the second set against Magdalena Maleeva of Bulgaria after straining a muscle in her right hip.

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