Top-seeds Spain crashed to a second successive defeat in the Hopman Cup mixed teams tournament in Perth yesterday with Arantxa Sanchez Vicario and Carlos Moya both losing in the singles to Australia.
Sanchez-Vicario was stunned by 15-year-old Jelena Dokic, 12 years her junior and ranked 337 places below her in the world rankings, while world number five Carlos Moya fell to hard-hitting Mark Philippoussis.
Sanchez-Vicario, the winner of four Grand Slam singles titles, lost 6-3 6-2 to Australian wonder kid Dokic, - the world's top junior but ranked a humble 341st in senior company - in 68 minutes.
Spain then almost certainly surrendered any chance of appearing in Saturday's final of the event when Moya crashed 6-4 7-6 (9-7) to Philippoussis.
Dokic handsomely more than made amends for her defeat by South Africa's Amanda Coetzer, who beat her 6-1 6-0 three days ago.
"I played much better and I was thinking more and took my time," said Dokic.
Group A: Australia 3 Spain 0 - J Dokic bt A Sanchez-Vicario 6-3, 6-2; M Philippoussis bt C Moya 6-4, 7-6 (9/7); Philippoussis/Dokic bt Moya/Sanchez Vicario walkover.
Group B: Sweden 2 Slovakia 1 - A Carlsson lost to K Habsudova 6-3 6-3; J Bjorkman bt K Kucera 7-5 6-1; Bjorkman & Carlsson bt Kucera & Habsudova 6-3 3-6 6-1.
Tim Henman rallied from one set down to defeat Moroccan number one Younes El Anaoui in the second round of the Qatar Open in Doha yesterday. Britain's top player, seeded one in Doha, won through 4-6 6-3 6-0 to join last year's losing Wimbledon finalist, Goran Ivanisevic, in the third round.
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