By Etienne Stekelenburg
June 22 2002
Today two players walked off of the centre court as unexpected winners at the Ordina Open, Holland. Dutchman Sjeng Schalken (6) defeated Swiss Roger Federer (2) in three sets (3-6 7-5 6-3) and the Greek Eleni Daniilidou beat Belgian nr 2 seed Justine Henin also in three sets (4-6 7-6 6-3).
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The #51 ranked Daniilidou fought off five match points in the second
set and forced Henin into a tiebreak, winning the second set by plain
hard-working-tennis using sliced backhands and topspin forehand shots. Looking like Gabriela Sabatini's little sister, with her looks and
her way Tina Pisnik from Slovenia, who ousted Kim Clijsters earlier, was up
against Eleni, for the first time in a Sanex WTA final, will have to work as
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