Tennis

HEINEKEN OPEN
(ASB Bank Tennis Centre)

Singles, quarter-finals (prefix numbers denote seeds): 2-J. Novak (Czech) bt R. Sluiter (Netherlands) 4-6 6-4 6-4, R. Nadal (Spain) bt G. Carraz (France) 2-1 walkover, 3-G. Kuerten bt 5-V. Spadea (US) 6-2 7-6 (7-4).

Doubles, semifinals: Novak/R. Stepanek (Czech) bt J. Coetzee/C. Haggard (South Africa) 7-5 6-1.

SYDNEY INTERNATIONAL

Men's singles, quarter-finals: 3-C. Moya (Spain) bt T. Robredo (Spain) 6-1 6-2.

Women's singles, quarter-finals: 1-J. Henin-Hardenne (Belgium) bt 7-C. Rubin (US) 6-3 4-6 6-4

MOORILLA INTERNATIONAL
(Melbourne)

Women's singles, semifinal: 6-S. Asagoe (Jpn) bt K. Brandi (Puerto Rico) 5-7 6-4 6-4.

KOOYONG INVITATIONAL
(Melbourne)

R. Ginepri (US) bt T. Dent (US) 7-5 6-1, S. Grosjean (Fra) bt Thomas Johansson (Swe) 6-4 6-2, A. Agassi (US) bt R. Federer (Switzerland) 6-2 6-4.

AUSTRALIAN OPEN
(Melbourne)

Men's seeds: A. Roddick (US) 1, R. Federer (Switz) 2, J.- C. Ferrero (Spn) 3, A. Agassi (US) 4, G. Coria (Arg) 5, R. Schuettler (Ger) 6, C. Moya (Spn) 7, D. Nalbandian (Arg) 8, S. Grosjean (Fra) 9, M. Philippoussis (Aust) 10, T. Henman (Brit) 11, N. Massu (Chile) 12, P. Srichaphan (Thai) 13, J. Novak (Cezch Rep) 14, L. Hewitt (Aust) 15.

S. Schalken (Neth) 16, M. Verkerk (Neth) 17, Y. El Aynaoui (Mor) 18, G. Kuerten (Bra) 19, T. Robredo (Spn) 20, M. Fish (US) 21, A. Calleri (Arg) 22, F. Mantilla (Spn) 23, M. Mirnyi (Belarus) 24, J. Bjorkman (Swe) 25, A. Costa (Spn) 26, T. Dent (US) 27, F. Lopez (Spn) 28, V. Spadea (US) 29, A. Clement (Fra) 30, W. Ferreira (SA) 31, R. Ginepri (US) 32.

Women's seeds: J. Henin-Hardenne (Bel) 1, K. Clijsters (Bel) 2, V. Williams (US) 3, A. Mauresmo (Fra) 4, L. Davenport (US) 5, A. Myskina (Rus) 6, E. Dementieva (Rus) 7, A. Sugiyama (Jpn) 8, C. Rubin (US) 9, N. Petrova (Rus) 10, V. Zvonareva (Rus) 11, P. Suarez (Arg) 12, C. Martinez (Spn) 13, A. Smashnova-Pistolesi (Isr) 14, D. Hantuchova (Slov) 15.

M. Serna (Spn) 16, M. Shaughnessy (US) 17, F. Schiavone (Ita) 18, E. Daniilidou (Gre) 19, S. Farina Elia (Ita) 20, E. Bovina (Rus) 21, P. Schnyder (Switz) 22, L. Krasnoroutskaya (Rus) 23, M. Maleeva (Bul) 24, L. Raymond (US) 25, T. Pisnik (Slov) 26, A. Coetzer (SA) 27, M. Sharapova (Rus) 28, N. Dechy (France) 29, S. Kuznetsova (Rus) 30, T. Tanasugarn (Thai) 31, F. Zuluaga (Col).