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WASHINGTON -- Top-seeded Andre Agassi beat 17-year-old Andy
Roddick 6-4, 6-4 in a match delayed twice by rain Friday to advance
to the semifinals of the Legg Mason Classic.
Agassi, seeking his sixth title in the tournament, broke serve
once in each set, and was in control of seemingly every rally.
"He certainly seems to have a lot of weapons," Agassi said.
"I'm never surprised when guys step it up."
Roddick was playing his first ATP Tour quarterfinal after
advancing with victories over eighth-seeded Fabrice Santoro and
ninth-seeded Karol Kucera.
"It was a close match. He was in control of it the whole
time," Roddick said "This week's been awesome. To score a couple
of big wins and play Agassi again, it's been great.
After the match, Agassi team with Armenia's Sargis Sargsian to
beat David Johnson and South Africa's Piet Norval 1-6, 6-3, 6-3 in
the third round of doubles.
In the semifinals Saturday, Agassi will face 14th-seeded David
Prinosil of Germany, a 6-3, 1-6, 6-3 winner over sixth-seeded Byron
Black of Zimbabwe.
In the other quarterfinals, second-seeded Alex Corretja of Spain
beat Australia's Wayne Arthurs 7-6 (5), 3-6, 6-3, and third-seeded
Nicolas Kiefer of Germany beat fifth-seeded Jan-Michael Gambill
4-6, 6-4, 6-2.
Kiefer, who has played three three-set matches in as many days,
broke Gambill's serve four times and won the final five games.
"We've played twice against each other and I've never gotten a
set against him," Kiefer said. "I served and returned very well
today, and that was the key to the match."
Serving at 1-2 in the third set, the German was called for a
foot fault on his second serve at 30-15. He responded by softly
hitting a ball in the direction of the linesman who made the call,
prompting a warning for unsportsmanlike behavior.
At deuce in the same game, Kiefer was penalized a point by the
chair umpire for spitting in the direction of the linesman.
"The second one I don't know why I got a point penalty. I was
spitting in the air," Kiefer said.
After Kiefer argued with the chair umpire, Gambill failed to
take advantage of the penalty point. However, he agreed that Kiefer
had done nothing wrong.
"I don't think what he did warranted a penalty point, so I
don't think I really earned that point," Gambill said.
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