/ 11 April 1999

COETZER WINS AGAIN

AMANDA COETZER took her third round match in the $520000 Bausch and Laumb women’s tennis tournament on Amelia Island in Florida on Thursday. The fifth seeded South African beat Spain’s Virginia Ruano Pascual 6-1, 7-5 to advance. In other notable matches, ninth seed poster girl Anna Kournikova sent number one seed Lindsay Davenport of the US home with a dominating 6-4, 6-1 win, and Mary Pierce of France, seeded fourth dumped fellow countrywoman Nathalie Dechy 2-6, 6-4, 6-3. Perhaps the most contested match in the third round was between Spain’s seventh seed Conchita Martinez and 10th seed Chanda Rubin from the US. Martinez eventually prevailed 7-6 (8-6), 5-7, 6-2.