Sport 21-01-2005 who: British tennis hopeful Elena Baltacha what: Reaches third round of the Australian Open where: Melbourne, Australia when: This week snippet: "The 21-year-old was the first British woman to make it to the third round here since Clare Wood in 1991," says The Evening Standard, "and was already assured of her biggest pay-day of £18,792 - only £4,000 less than she earnt in the whole of 2004." She beat Slovenia`s Katarina Srebotnik 5-7 6-4 6-4 in the first round on Monday and Stephanie Cohen-Aloro of France 2-6, 6-3, 6-1 in the second round. Meanwhile, Tim Henman comfortably reached the third round by beating Victor Hanescu 7-5 6-1 6-4 but Greg Rusedski fell to Andy Roddick, who beat him 6-0, 3-6, 6-2, 6-3 in the second round. [... more]

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