Mauresmo downs Davenport for title

Norman champ: Sweden’s Magnus Norman outlasted American Michael Chang to take his first ATP Tour title of the year 3-6, 6-3, 7-5 at the New Zealand Men’s Tennis Open in Auckland.

Sampras wins: Pete Sampras breezed past Vincent Spadea 6-3, 6-1 in an exhibition match after withdrawals wiped out both the Colonial Classic’s final and its third-place match. Mark Philippoussis woke up with a stiff neck and pulled out of his scheduled final with top-ranked Andre Agassi, also putting in doubt his participation in the Austalian Open.

Thomas Enqvist already had withdrawn from the third-place match with Sampras.

Australian open women’s draw
(seedings in prefix, country in parenthesis, WC represents wild cards)

1-Martina Hingis (Swi) vs Mirjana Lucic (Cro), Justine Henin (Bel) vs Qualifier, Jolene Watanabe (US) vs Karina Habsudova (Svk), Sylvija Talaja (Cro) vs Alicia Molic (Aus), Tamarine Tanasugarn (Tha) vs Rita Grande (Ita), Katarina Srebotnik (Slo) vs Jana Nejedly (Can), Angelica Gavaldon (Mex) vs Qualifier, Petra Mandula (Hun) vs 12-Sandrine Testud (Fra), 13-Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario (Spa) vs Julia Abe (Ger), Qualifier vs Lisa Raymond (US), Alexia Dechaume-Balleret (Fra) vs Emmanuelle Gagliardi (Swi), WC-Bryanne Stewart (Aus) vs Maria Alejandra Vento (Ven), Ludmila Cervanova (Svk) vs Qualifier, Magui Serna (Spa) vs Maureen Drake (Can), WC-Lisa Mcshea (Aus) vs Miroslava Vavrinec (Swi), Meilen Tu (US) vs 6-Barbara Schett (Aut), 3-Serena Williams (US) vs WC-Amanda Grahame (Aus), Maria Antonia Sanchez Lorenzo (Spa) vs Nicole Pratt (Aus), Sabine Appelmans (Bel) vs Annabel Ellwood (Aus), Chanda Rubin (US) vs Anna Smashnova (Isr), Amy Frazier (US) vs Els Callens (Bel), Virginie Razzano(Fra) vs Denisa Chladkova (Cze), Tara Snyder (US) vs Meghann Shaughnessy (US), Pavlina Nola (Bul) vs 16-Elena Likhovtseva (Rus), 10-Conchita Martinez (Spa) vs Sandra Kleinova (Cze), Irina Spirlea (Rom) vs Olga Barabanschikova (Blr), Lubomira Bacheva (Blr) vs Sylvia Plischke (Aut), Mariana Diaz-Oliva (Arg) vs Jelena Kostanic (Cro), Erika Delone (US) vs Annamaria Foldenyi (Hun), Ruxandra Dragomir (Rom) vs Qualifier, Gala Leon Garcia (Spa) vs Kristina Brandi (US), Tatiana Panova (Rus) vs 8-Amanda Coetzer (RSA), 7-Amelie Mauresmo (Fra) vs Cristina Torrens Valero (Spa), Patty Schnyder (Swi) vs Lilia Osterloh (US), Nadejda Petrova (Rus) vs Anne-Gaelle Sidot (Fra), Lenka Nemeckova (Cze) vs Cara Black (Zim), Qualifier vs Jane Chi (US), WC-Jing-Qian Yi (Chn) vs Laurence Courtois (Bel), Jennifer Capriati (US) vs Barbara Schwartz (Aut), Kim Clijsters (Bel) vs 14-Dominique Van Roost (Bel), 15-Anke Huber (Ger) vs Kristie Boogert (Ned), Alexandra Stevenson (US) vs Asa Carlsson(Swe), Ai Sugiyama (Jpn) vs Magdalena Maleeva (Bul), Seda Noorlander (Ned) vs Adriana Gersi (Cze), Miriam Oremans (Ned) vs Anca Barna (Ger), Janet Lee (US) vs Sandra Nacuk (Yug), Amelie Cocheteux (Fra) vs Barbara Rittner (Ger), Qualifier vs 4-Mary Pierce (Fra), 5-Nathalie Tauziat (Fra) vs Henrieta Nagyova (Svk), Qualifier vs Amanda Hopmans (Ned), Qualifier vs WC-Melissa Dowse (Aus), WC-Evie Dominikovic (Aus) vs Emelie Loit (Fra), WC-Rachael McQuillan (Aus) vs Angeles Montolio (Spa), Paola Suarez (Arg) vs Elena Dementieva (Rus), Nathalie Dechy (Fra) vs Fabiola Zuluaga (Col), Qualifier vs 9-Julie Halard-Decugis (Fra), 11-Anna Kournikova (Rus) vs Patricia Wartusch (Aut), Brie Rippner (US) vs Natasha Zvereva (Blr), Kveta Hrdlickova (Cze) vs Virginia Ruano-Pascual (Spa), Rita Kuti Kis (Hun) vs Jelena Dokic (Aus), Qualifier vs Tina Pisnik (Svk), Marlene Weingartner (Ger) vs Anne Kremer (Lux), Corina Morariu (US) vs Qualifier, Sarah Pitkowski (Fra) vs 2-Lindsay Davenport (USA).