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Tennis: Sanguinetti Upsets Ferrero at Milan Indoor Tournament VOA Sports 1 Feb 2002 00:31 UTC 
Italian tennis player Davide Sanguinetti has pulled off the biggest upset at the Milan Indoor tennis tournament in Italy.
Sanguinetti ousted top seed Juan Carlos Ferrero of Spain in straight sets Thursday, 6-2, 6-4. Sanguinetti advances to the quarterfinal round, where he will face fifth seed Younes El Aynaoui of Morocco, a 6-4, 6-3 winner over Italian Stefano Galvani.
Sargis Sargsian of Armenia beat Swiss opponent Michel Kratochvil, 6-4, 6-4, to earn a meeting with second seed Roger Federer of Switzerland. Federer needed three sets to defeat Russian qualifier Nikolay Davydenko, 6-3, 6-7, 7-5.
In other action, Max Mirnyi of Belarus beat Michal Tabara of the Czech Republic, 6-1, 6-2. Unseeded Dutchman Sjeng Schalken defeated Brazilian Andre Sa in straight sets (6-3, 6-love), to set up a quarterfinal showdown with British player and seventh seed Greg Rusedski.
Some information for this report provided by AP and AFP.
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