Agassi Edges El Aynaoui; Sharapova Dumps Dokic

ATP REVIEW/PREVIEW
Three low-end seeds were sent home from Wimbledon Saturday in (11)Novak (l. to Popp), (30)Nieminen (l. to O.Rochus in five sets), and (35)Stepanek (l. to Philippoussis). Seeds advancing were (2)Agassi (d. El Aynaoui in four, coming back from a set down), (3)Ferrero (d. Sargsian to reach the fourth round for the first time), (6)Nalbandian (d. Kucera, came from 1-2 sets down), (10)Henman (d. (Q)Soderling easily), and (13)Grosjean (d. Moodie, came back from a set down). Agassi's match was much more work than the four-set score indicated, considering he broke El Aynaoui's serve only once, and faced set points to go to a fifth. Agassi also won 27 out of 30 forays into the net. "Younes has a soft slice," Agassi said of his net charges. "His slice tends to float. But that sort of works well for his game because when it floats, it doesn't have much pace. Then it's hard for you to generate pace and that gives him a chance to move around it and use his big forehand. So the one thing I wanted him to sort of feel is that he can't get away with something really floating up there."
There is no play today on the middle Sunday at Wimbledon.

WTA REVIEW/PREVIEW
Four low-end seeds bit it at Wimbledon Saturday, highlighted by 16-year-old jail bait Maria "Orgasmo" Sharapova ousting (11)Dokic in a battle of who's hotter. Other seeds dug up were former champion (18)Martinez (l. to (10)Myskina), (23)Raymond (l. to Pierce), and (28)Granville (l. to (1)Serena). For the unseeded Pierce it is her fourth trip to the round of 16, and she looks forward to using her brain, er, mind...control powers on court. "It's more difficult to go out there and play matches not being in that level where I want to be," Pierce said. "So all I really do is just use my mind a lot more." Other winners were (3)Henin-Hardenne (d. Molik), (8)Capriati (d. Morigami), (15)Dementieva (d. Kapros), and (33)Kuznetsova (d. Loit). In the doubles Saturday, three seeds were shown the door in (6)Dokic/Petrova (l. to Vento-Kabchi/Widjaja, Dokic must have needed to catch a plane back to the race car driver boyfriend) (9)Hantuchova/Rubin (l. to Bedanova/Voracova), and (14)Krizan/Srebotnik (l. to Asagoe/Miyagi).

TOUR NOTES, QUOTES, AND BARBS
Kim Clijsters will become No. 1 if Serena loses before she does at Wimbledon. Clijsters has lost only seven games in three matches (nice WTA Tour parity)...There are five Russians among the final 16 women, and none have lost a set or even faced a set point for that matter...Lindsay Davenport thought her car was stolen Saturday at Wimbledon, but it was only towed...The grunt-eriffic Maria Sharapova is not short on confidence: "I enter every tournament to win it, that's my philosophy. I can't go into a tournament thinking 'Yeah, I'm gonna get my ass kicked today, so I might as well just leave'. But I am surprised, I'm 16 and in the fourth round, how odd is that?"...Only Pat Cash and Jimmy Connors have won the Wimbledon singles title as fathers, and only Evonne Goolagong as a mother in the Open Era...Jelena Dokic ruled out playing Fed Cup or the Olympics after getting pounded by Maria Sharapova. Fans everywhere are crushed…The Top 5 seeds on the women's side advanced to week two, all without the loss of a set. On the men's, 10 of the top 13 seeds advanced. Wow…Tim Henman is in week two for an eighth consecutive year…Sjeng Schalken, Roger Federer and Andy Roddick all enter week two riding 8 match win streak. Juan Carlos has a 10 match win streak…The Glastonbury Festival is taking place this weekend about 3 hours from London. Moby, Radiohead and others are performing…The 16 players left on the men's side are from 13 different countries…Monday is considered to be the greatest day in tennis…WEATHER: Sunday looks good, but Monday rain is scheduled…STAT OF THE DAY: Mark Philippoussis hit 148 serves in his match with Stepanek, and only 46 came back into the court.