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To: stockman_scott who wrote (73470)	1/26/2006 7:51:16 AM
From: sylvester80	Respond to of 89467

BAGHDATIS WINS! BAGHDATIS WINS!!! Just finished watching the game on ESPN live. Most amazing 5 setter EVER! Baghdatis was serving for the match at 15 all and was 3 points away when buckets of rain start falling on the open court. So they called the match for rain delay. Can you imagine??? 3 points from winning the match on his serve and they call a rain delay! Then they come back after about 20 minutes and he is 40-30 with just one point away and he hits a winner to win the match but the empire overrules a linesman's clearly IN call (they showed it on the replay) as OUT and they are deuce again. So here you had Baghdatis having already won the match but having to serve again at deuce. He finally won after 2 more points but my heart felt like stopping. This guy gave everything. He came back from 2 sets down to win in 5. AMAZING!!! GO BAGHDATIS!!!! I hope he beats Federer cause it is a huge cinderella story. I know it's going to be tough though. GO BAGHDATIS!!!!!

To: stockman_scott who wrote (73470)	1/26/2006 11:42:04 AM
From: sylvester80	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 89467

Baghdatis continues amazing Aussie run Non-seed rallies from 2 sets down to beat Nalbandian, reach final The Associated Press Updated: 9:47 a.m. ET Jan. 26, 2006 MELBOURNE, Australia - Unseeded Marcos Baghdatis extended his remarkable run at the Australian Open, rallying Thursday to beat No. 4 David Nalbandian 3-6, 5-7, 6-3, 6-4, 6-4 and reach the final. With the crowd screaming support, the 54th-ranked Baghdatis guaranteed that he will more than double his career winnings. He will play the winner of Friday’s semifinal between top-seeded Roger Federer and No. 21 Nicolas Kiefer. Baghdatis, a former world junior champion from Cyprus, was serving for the match at 15-15 when rain began pouring down, forcing organizers to close the roof on Rod Laver Arena. After workers toweled off the surface, the 20-year-old Baghdatis missed his first match point on a backhand that was ruled long. Nalbandian hit a forehand into the net to set up a second chance, and Baghdatis finished it off with his 15th ace, dropping to his knees and bowing his head. “Just amazing,” said Baghdatis, who hadn’t made it past the fourth round of his first five Grand Slam events. “I have to wake up. “Everything was going in. I was just in my own world I think.” He won 17 of the last 21 points. The stadium was awash in blue-and-white — looking more like Greece’s national day than Australia’s — in support of Baghdatis. The dozens of chanting fans who showed up for every one of his matches had plenty of company this time in a city with a large Greek population. Baghdatis broke Nalbandian, the reigning Masters Cup champion and 2002 Wimbledon runner-up, early in the first set before the Argentine started ripping winners from both sides. Nalbandian jumped ahead by a set and 5-1 in the second before Baghdatis started rallying. The crowd erupted in thunderous cheers as he tied it at 5-5. He was serving at 15-40 in the next game when holiday fireworks started thundering nearby. The startled Baghdatis hit a forehand crosscourt winner before twisting his ankle while losing the next point and the game. Unlike Clijsters, Baghdatis bounced up quickly. Nalbandian held serve to take the set, but Baghdatis continued to claw back, seemingly oblivious to the pressure, soccer kicking a ball eight times at one point. He survived an early break to take the third set and broke Nalbandian for the only time that he needed in the fourth, holding serve the rest of the way. Never-say-die Baghdatis, with his infectious smile and quirky service routine of using his racket to bounce the ball once between his legs each time, rallied twice from service breaks in the fifth set. The umpire had to repeatedly ask the crowd for quiet. Serving at 4-4, Nalbandian double-faulted, then committed three straight errors to give Baghdatis his eighth service break. Baghdatis held serve for the match. URL: msnbc.msn.com