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Agassi beaten by 339th-ranked Zimonjic
St. Poelten,
17 May 2004
Andre Agassi lost in the first round of the Raiffeisen Grand Prix on Monday to a qualifier ranked 339th in the world.
Nenad Zimonjic, left, and Andre Agassi shake hands after their match
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AP
Nenad Zimonjic of Serbia-Montenegro beat Agassi 6-2, 7-6 (6) at the clay-court tuneup for the French Open, which starts next week.
"Zimonjic played great tennis. It was very hard for me to guess what he was going to do next," said Agassi, who has skipped other events on the European clay circuit.
Zimonjic broke Agassi's serve in the sixth game of the match and took the first set in a little more than half an hour.
"I knew if I could hold my own serve and keep pressurizing Andre, I would have a chance to win the match," Zimonjic said.
He varied baseline hits with serve-and-volley attacks, played risky kick serves on his second serve and always had an answer for everything Agassi tried.
"It was really tough. The longer the match went on, the better I got into it, but it didn't work out," Agassi said.
Down 4-1 in the second set, Agassi collected two straight service breaks to pull even. But Zimonjic ended the match on his second match point in the tiebreaker.
"It is an unbelievable feeling and a great honor to have defeated Andre Agassi," Zimonjic said.
Agassi was at a loss to explain the defeat.
"I have played well in training, have beaten stronger opponents," he said. "But a match is a match and not training, I guess."
Zimonjic broke Agassi's serve in the sixth game of the match and took the first set in a little more than half an hour.
"I knew if I could hold my own serve and keep pressurizing Andre, I would have a chance to win the match," Zimonjic said.
He varied baseline hits with serve-and-volley attacks, played risky kick serves on his second serve and always had an answer for everything Agassi tried.
"It was really tough. The longer the match went on, the better I got into it, but it didn't work out," Agassi said.
Down 4-1 in the second set, Agassi collected two straight service breaks to pull even. But Zimonjic ended the match on his second match point in the tiebreaker.
"It is an unbelievable feeling and a great honor to have defeated Andre Agassi," Zimonjic said.
Agassi was at a loss to explain the defeat.
"I have played well in training, have beaten stronger opponents," he said. "But a match is a match and not training, I guess."
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