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Grosjean back from the brink
Sunday, 19 January, 2003
by Tim Brimblecombe & Ashley Browne
Updated at 9.40pm AEST
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Australian Open 2003's No.12 seed Sebastien Grosjean has come back from
the brink to win through to the quarter-finals after a slogging five-set
defeat of Spain's Felix Mantilla.
Grosjean, the 2001 semi-finalist, made his peace with Centre Court at Rod
Laver Arena with a 3-6, 2-6, 6-3, 6-3, 6-3 defeat over Mantilla - the
five-set specialist whose first three matches at Melbourne Park this year
all went the distance. The match lasted more than three and a half hours
and featured several service breaks in the fifth set, in which neither
player appeared to want to make the match his own.
In 2001, Grosjean blew a two set lead in losing his semi-final to his
countryman Arnaud Clement. But against Mantilla, he was able to remain
steady on the big points and hold his nerve during the tense final few games.
Grosjean will now play three-time champion Andre Agassi, who had the easiest
of passages into his fifth quarter-final when Argentina's Guillermo Coria
retired after 48 minutes from their fourth-round match.
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