Posts Tagged ‘Kitzbuhel’

26 July 2003
Top seed and French Open champion Juan Carlos Ferrero suffered a surprise defeat by ninth seeded Argentine Mariano Zabaleta to dash his hopes of becoming world number one.
The Spaniard would have taken over from Andre Agassi at the top of the rankings if he had gone on to win the tournament.
But he appeared sluggish after having to play two matches in one day.
The 23-year-old had beaten 15th seed Flavio Saretta 7-6 6-3 earlier in the day but was unable to match Zabaleta in the quarter-finals a few hours later, going down 6-1 6-4.
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