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PERSPECTIVE With the Men Down, Women Take Center Stage
SATURDAY'S RESULTS
Fire and rain delayed Saturday's matches but defending champion Martina Hingis (pictured) and sixth-seeded Monica Seles blazed into the final 16. Seles beat Indonesian Yayuk Basuki, making the fourth round at Wimbledon for the first time since 1992. Hingis breezed past unseeded Elena Likhovtseva. Play was halted momentarily when a nearby building caught fire. The fire was dealt with only to have showers move in.
FRIDAY'S RESULTS
No. 4 seed Steffi Graf (pictured), who was attempting to win her eighth Wimbledon title, lost Friday to Natasha Zvereva, 6-4, 7-5 in a third-round match. Graf had beaten Zvereva the previous 17 times and it was her sixth singles defeat at Wimbledon since her debut in 1984. Graf's loss sets the stage for another fan favorite, No. 6 Monica Seles, who again sat through another round of bad Wimbledon weather.
THURSDAY'S RESULTS
Andre Agassi (pictured), the 1992 champion and No. 13 seed, lost Thursday to Germany's Tommy Haas, 4-6, 6-1, 7-6 (7-4), 6-4, in a second-round match suspended by rain Wednesday. No. 5 seed Carlos Moya lost to Morocco's Hicham Arazi, while in the women's bracket, No. 1 Martina Hingis advanced.
WEDNESDAY'S RESULTS
Second-seeded Marcelo Rios (pictured), took out some of his anger on his racket during his 6-3, 3-6, 7-5, 3-6, 6-3 loss to Francisco Clavet. But the Chilean saved some of his frustration for Wimbledon as a whole. "Maybe there are little things that they're not very good at in this tournament," Rios said. After making a quick exit from the championship, Rios said he planned to leave the country as soon as possible.
TUESDAY'S RESULTS
Venus Williams (pictured) advanced on the grass surface with which she is admittedly still not comfortable, 6-3, 6-3 over Canada's Jana Nejedly in a rain-delayed first-round match at Wimbledon. Meanwhile, top-seeded Martina Hingis — playing on Centre Court for the first time since winning the title last year — advanced past Lisa Raymond in straight sets. In other action, No. 3 seed Jana Novotna defeated Sandra Kleinova while sixth-seeded Patrick Rafter advanced.
MONDAY'S RESULTS
Media Focuses Attention on Women of Wimbledon
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'98 Wimbledon 
