61.   Also in the upper half of the draw are third seeded American Lindsay Davenport and Sabine Hack of Germany, the sixth seed.

62.   Agassi, the sixth seed, faced Olympic bronze medallist Leander Paes of India in a second-round match.

63.   Belgian sixth seed Justine Henin ended the last Australian hope Saturday when she beat Nicole Pratt in the Australian Open third round.

64.   Bjorkman had thrashed sixth seed Tim Henman on the same court but under a blazing sun on Sunday.

65.   British fifth seed Henman was later playing Adrian Voinea of Romania, while sixth seed Safin was meeting Alberto Martin of Spain.

66.   Calatrava stunned sixth seed Dominik Hrbaty of the Slovak Republic in the best match of the tournament so far.

67.   Eighth seed Yayuk Basuki of Indonesia and sixth seed Mary Joe Fernandez of the United States dropped out with illnesses.

68.   The sixth seed produced a costly pair of double-faults and put a return wide to lose his serve.

69.   The Rockets traded away forward Otis Thorpe at mid-season for Drexler and fell to the sixth seed in the NBA Western Conference playoffs.

70.   The sixth seed now plays Rainer Schuttler, but another German, Nicolas Kiefer, suffered another in a worryingly long line of defeats.