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SOCCER - MOROCCAN FIRST DIVISION RESULTS.
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RABAT 1996-08-26
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Results of Moroccan first division
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soccer matches played on Sunday:
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Widad Fes 3 Oujda 1
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Raja Casablanca 4 Tetouan 0
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Jeunesse Massira 0 Widad Casablanca 2
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Sporting Sale 0 Meknes 1
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Settat 1 Marrakesh 0
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Khouribga 3 Mohammedia 0
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Sidi Kacem 0 Royal Armed Forces 0
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El Jadida 1 Hassania Agadir 0
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TENNIS - QUENCH YOUR THIRST - IF YOU CAN AFFORD IT AT U.S. OPEN.
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Bill Berkrot
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NEW YORK 1996-08-26
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A message on television monitors all around the National Tennis Centre reads: " Due to hot weather please seek shade and drink plenty of fluids "--sound advice until you check out the price of fluids.
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Perhaps the advisory was cut off before concluding: " ...and bring plenty of money . "
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A small bottle of a garishly-coloured sports drink at the sun-drenched U.S. Open is going for $3.75, while a litre of basic, life-sustaining water will set you back $4.00--for water?
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" At the Olympics water was only a dollar, and that was the Olympics, " said one incredulous fan, noting that the Atlanta Games had been notorious for price gouging.
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U.S. Open officials managed to insult most of the male tennis players last week with their controversial handling of the seeding and draw.
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When the tournament began on Monday it was the fans' turn to be offended.
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" That baked lasagna better be good for $8.50, " said New Yorker Rebecca Weinstein, a U.S. Open regular who was eating a sandwich she had brought from home.
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A trio of hungry fans at the food court who had already forked over the lasagna money pronounced it good, but Carol Perry chimed in, " The water is ridiculous, they want four dollars for the water, you might as well get a glass of wine . "
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Indeed, a nice glass of chardonnay or white zinfandel was going for $4.75, while an imported beer was just a bit more than the water at $4.50.
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What's the message here? "
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Maybe they want us to be alcoholics, " Perry joked before lifting her glass of wine.
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Fans will be shelling out $12.50 for a hamburger and a large french fries.
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And that little snack is guaranteed to make you thirsty.
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Make that $16.50.
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Even a sandwich as pedestrian as a ham and swiss cheese is going for a whopping $8.00.
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Of course, it is served on a tuscan roll.
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It must be the cost of flying those rolls over from Tuscany every day that drives up the price of the sandwich.
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TENNIS - HUBER AND MALEEVA FALL, UP-AND-COMERS ADVANCE AT OPEN.
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Larry Fine
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NEW YORK 1996-08-26
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Martina Hingis led a youthful charge and Australian Open finalist Anke Huber and Magdalena Maleeva were fallen seeds on Monday in a hot, sunny opening to the U.S. Open tennis championships.
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The 15-year-old Hingis, seeded 16th, was honoured to play the first match of the season's last Grand Slam on Stadium Court but happy to hurry off with a straight-sets victory over the 112th-ranked Angeles Montolio of Spain.
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" It was very hot and I didn't want to stay long on the court, " said a cheery Hingis, who had no worries in racing to a 6-1 6-0 victory against the overmatched Spaniard.
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Hoping for a longer engagement on the cement at Flushing Meadows were the sixth-seeded Huber of Germany and 12th seed Maleeva of Bulgaria.
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Huber, who lost to Monica Seles in the Australian Open final, fell victim to an unfortunate draw in bowing to dangerous floater Amanda Coetzer of South Africa.
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Coetzer, ranked 17th, avenged her defeat to Huber in the Australian Open semifinals by winning 6-1 2-6 6-2.
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" I looked at it as not a first round match, just a great challenge for me, " said Coetzer, 24 . "
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I was really concentrating on keeping my own momentum and my own rhythm.
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" She is tough to play in that way because she plays very up and down.
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She played one great game and than a few errors.
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The challenge was just for me to keep playing my own game . "
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Huber, who reached the final a week ago at Manhattan Beach, could only mourn her luck of the draw.
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" I wasn't happy when I saw the draw.
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She was the first non- seeded player, " said the 21-year-old German . "
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It's always tough to play somebody like that in the first round in a Grand Slam.
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" I think I didn't play that bad today.
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It was maybe my best first round match in a Grand Slam I ever played . "
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Monday brought the best out in U.S. Open rookie Aleksandra Olsza of Poland, ranked 110th.
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The 18-year-old Olsza, last year's Wimbledon junior champion, celebrated her debut in the main draw of the Open by removing Maleeva 6-4 6-2.
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The curtain-raising victories by Hingis and Olsza provided a ringing endorsement for the newest wave of women's players coming up from the junior ranks.
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The Swiss teenager, a twice French Open junior champion and a Wimbledon juniors winner, had already proven her main stage mettle by reaching the quarters at this year's Australian Open.
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" I hope I can get into the last 16, " said Hingis, seeded to face third seed Arantxa Sanchez Vicario in the fourth round.
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Hingis has been working hard on conditioning and has lost eight pounds (3.5 kilos) in advance of the championships.
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" There will be tough matches but I hope I can get there, " she said . "
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Then we'll see if Arantxa will be there, too . "
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The fast-moving Olsza, 18, was cool in her opening match.
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" I wasn't scared when I heard that I was playing Maleeva, " said Olsza . "
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I know that if I want to play professional tennis I have to do my best to try to beat her and I can't be scared . "
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Olsza is undaunted by the level of competition in the pros.
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" In terms of tennis, I think the junior players are really good now.
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In a few years, it could change a lot among the top players . "
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Two big-serving women's players made quick work of Japanese opponents.
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Brenda Schultz-McCarthy of the Netherlands, the 13th seed, was a 6-1 6-4 winner over Japan's Nana Miyaga, while Czech veteran Helena Sukova prevailed over Yone Kamio 6-2 6-3.
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Austrian Barbara Paulus, seeded 14th, also reached the second round with a 6-2 6-1 victory over Yi Jing-Qian of China.
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TENNIS - STICH GLAD HE STAYED AFTER OPEN VICTORY.
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Richard Finn
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NEW YORK 1996-08-26
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Michael Stich nearly pulled out of the U.S. Open in protest over the men's seeding fiasco but the former Wimbledon champion was glad he stayed after sweating out a four-set win on Monday over qualifier Tommy Haas.
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" I still feel it's embarrassing what happened and I was about to pull out yesterday and say,' That's it,' " said Stich, one of a host of men who cried foul over seeding procedures that forced an unprecedented remaking of the men's draw last week.
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" But there are so many reasons to play, especially spectators and the kids who come out here and want to enjoy watching tennis, that I decided to stay . "
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In a break from tradition, the Open did not seed in strict accordance with ATP rankings, instead taking into account other factors that raised objections of favourtism toward U.S. players.
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One prominent player that did not stay for the Open was French Open champion Yvegeny Kafelnikov, who after being dropped three spots from his ATP ranking to a seventh seeding, withdrew and returned home to Russia.
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Kafelnikov had pulled out of last week's tournament with a rib injury.
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At a news conference attended by approximately 50 players on Sunday, U.S. Davis Cup player Todd Martin expressed the players' outrage at the seedings.
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" The way the U.S. Open has seeded here, tampering with the ranking system, has tarnished the image and reputation of this U.S. Open in the players' mind, and we think that is damaging to our sport, " Martin said.
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Stich said he felt the players ought to have organised an active protest.
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" I feel that we made it a little easy for the USTA.
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They didn't really get hurt as much as I think they should have, " said Stich . "
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I feel that we should have maybe just cancelled out the Monday, not show up today and start the tournament tomorrow . "
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But once the 27-year-old Stich got on the court, he focused his energies on trying to win the year's last Grand Slam.
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He took a positive first step with his 6-3 1-6 6-1 7-5 win over compatriot Haas on a sun-baked Grandstand court.
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Others advancing early on Monday included 11th-seeded American Malivai Washington, the Wimbledon runner-up, Sweden's Magnus Gustafsson, and two-time former French Open champion Sergi Bruguera of Spain, who will be Stich's next opponent.
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The suspicion, however, lingers in Stich's mind that U.S. Open officials did tamper with the seeding process in order to benefit homegrown players.
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" I get the feeling that everything is done here for the American players and they forget about all the other players, " said Stich, who lost the 1994 Open final to Andre Agassi.
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It was Agassi who was at the centre of the controversy that engulfed the tournament since the original draw was completed on Wednesday.
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The flamboyant American star was bumped up two spots from his ATP ranking of eight to a seeding of six.
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" He (Agassi) should be seeded the way he is playing tennis right now, " said Stich about the unfairness of moving up Agassi, who made early exits from the French Open and Wimbledon.
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Stich, not seeded here for the first time since 1990, might have benefitted from some fiddling with the seedings himself after Kafelnikov withdrew.
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Ranked 18th in the world, Stich might have been slipped into that spot ahead of Spain's Felix Mantilla, who is 16th but had never been played in the Open and had been left out of the seedings originally.
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But Stich didn't want to play that game.
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