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TENNIS ROUNDUP : Agenor Beats Agassi for Third Time, 6-0, 6-2

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From Associated Press

Ronald Agenor of Haiti has Andre Agassi’s number, and it has reached three.

Agenor continued his mastery of the second-seeded Agassi with a 6-0, 6-2 victory Wednesday in a $627,500 tournament at Tokyo.

“I don’t know why I couldn’t get a point (in the first set),” Agassi said of his third consecutive setback to Agenor. “He played his best game against me. I have met him three times but won only 10 games.”

In another upset, Rick Leach knocked off third-seeded Jakob Hlasek of Switzerland, 4-6, 7-6 (9-7), 6-4, and top-seeded Stefan Edberg of Sweden downed John Fitzgerald of Australia, 6-2, 6-3.

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Second-seeded Jimmy Connors outlasted seventh-seeded Miguel Nido of Puerto Rico, 1-6, 6-3, 6-3, to reach the semifinals of a Grand Prix tournament at Tel Aviv.

In other matches, third-seeded Amos Mansdorf of Israel beat Markus Zocke of West Germany, 6-2, 6-7 (5-7), 6-2; Gianluca Pozzi of Italy) upset eighth-seeded Kelly Jones, 6-3, 7-5, and Gilad Bloom of Israel defeated Josef Cihak of Czechoslovakia, 7-5, 6-1.

Seventh-seeded Helen Kelesi of Canada got past Gretchen Magers, 7-5, 6-2, and reached the quarterfinals of the $250,000 European Indoor at Zurich, Switzerland.

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