Displaying no signs of the knee injury that threatened to end her career, she beat her fellow German, Andrea Glass, 6-4, 6-2.. ALASTAIR DOWN, writer of The Sporting Life article at the centre of a libel action, clashed in the High Court yesterday with counsel representing racehorse trainer Lynda Ramsden, her husband Jack and champion jockey Kieren Fallon. It will send him out of the top 20 in the world rankings for the first time since 6 October when the next list is announced by ATP on Monday.However, Henman will have one consolation. Because he missed more than two months of the season from the end of March last year following an elbow operation, he has no more ranking points to defend until the Nottingham tournament in June “I’ll still be a top-25 player,” he said. “Of course it’s disappointing, but I know I’m good enough to work hard on the practice court and it will sooner or later pay off on the match court.”l Steffi Graf enjoyed a two-set win yesterday in her first singles match in over eight months, at the Hannover Grand Prix. Yesterday he was much more powerful than Arazi, but the Moroccan left-hander more than matched Rusedski in the baseline rallies. Though Rusedski served 18 aces to three by Arazi, there was often little to choose between the two.
Because Henman reached the final of this event last year, he will lose more than 200 world ranking points.

Rusedski, the British No 1, dropped a place to ninth in the world rankings on Monday because he lost the points gained from reaching the final of the San Jose tournament in the United States 12 months ago. BRITAIN’S Greg Rusedski had a much harder fight than expected before beating Hicham Arazi 7-6, 3-6, 6-3 in the first round of the European Community Championship in Antwerp yesterday while Tim Henman, the British No 2, suffered his fourth consecutive first-round defeat when he was beaten 7-5, 6-2 by Magnus Norman of Sweden. Eurosport 24hr coverage.TomorrowAlpine skiing: Women’s giant slalom, first leg 00.30, second leg 04.00.Cross-country skiing: Women’s 30km freestyle 00.00.Nordic combined: 4×5km relay team event 04.00.Speed skating: Women’s 5,000m 06.00.Figure skating: Women’s free programme 10.00.Ice hockey: Men’s semi-finals 05.45, 09.45.Bobsleigh: Four-man first run 06.00.Television times: BBC2 07.45-8.45, 12.30-14.40, 18.55-20.320 Eurosport 24hr coverage.. British: 47 M Dixon 30:34.4 (0); 68 M Gee 33:00.3 (5).ICE HOCKEYMen’s quarter-finals: USA 1 Czech Republic 4; Belarus 1 Russia 4; Canada 4 Kazakhstan 1; Sweden 1 Finland 2.FIGURE SKATINGWomen’s short programme: 1 M Kwan (US) 0.5 pts; 2 T Lipinski (US) 1.0; 3 M Butyrskaya (Rus) 1.5; 4 Lu Chen (Ch) 2.0; 5 I Slutskaya (Rus) 2.5; 6 S Bonaly (Fr) 3.0; 7 E Liashenko (Ukr) 3.5; 8 V Gusmeroli (Fr) 4.0; 9 T Malinina (Uzbek) 4.5; 10 E Sokolova (Rus) 5.0.MEDALS TABLEG S B TotalRussia 8 4 1 13Germany 7 8 7 22Norway 7 8 4 19United States 5 1 4 10Canada 4 5 3 12Netherlands 4 4 2 10Japan 4 1 3 8Austria 2 3 7 12Finland 2 3 5 10France 2 1 3 6Switzerland 2 1 2 5South Korea 2 0 0 2Italy 1 4 2 7Bulgaria 1 0 0 1China 0 3 0 3Czech Republic 0 1 1 2Sweden 0 1 1 2Denmark 0 1 0 1Ukraine 0 1 0 1Belarus 0 0 2 2Belgium 0 0 1 1Kazakhstan 0 0 1 1TIMETABLEToday (times GMT)Alpine skiing: Women’s slalom, first leg 00.30, second leg 04.00; men’s giant slalom 02.15.Nordic combined: 90m ski jumping team event 00.30.Speed skating: Women’s 1,000m, 06.00; women’s 500m qualifying and final, men’s 500m qualifying, men’s 5,000m relay qualifying 10.00.Biathlon: Women’s 4×7.5km relay 04.00.Television times: BBC2 07.45-8.45, 12.30-14.40, 19.00-20.00. The 17-year-old American won the short programme – worth one-third of the total score – with 0.5pts as opposed to the 1pt of her rival and compatriot, Tara Lipinski. Russia’s Maria Butyrskaya stood third and China’s Lu Chen fourth.Surya Bonaly, the veteran French skater, ended up sixth and frustrated with the panel “After 10 years, I am used to it I am tired of crying and crying and crying,” she said.

“You can’t control the judges.”Bjoern Dahlie, Norway’s cross-country skier, won a record seventh Winter Olympics gold medal by the stretch of a leg. Russia, who beat Belarus by the same score, contest the other semi-final with Finland, who defeated Sweden, the Olympic title holders, 2-1.Michelle Kwan, whom most observers believe will win the women’s figure skating title tomorrow if she avoids serious errors, has taken a firm step towards that goal. The 4×10km relay came down to a sprint in which Thomas Alsgaard, Norway’s last man, finished 0.2sec ahead of the Italian Silvio Fauner by sticking out his ski.Negano results and timetableFREESTYLE SKIINGMen’s aerials final1 Eric Bergoust (US) 255.64pts(world record)2 Sebastien Foucras (Fr) 248.793 Dimitri Dashchinsky (Bela) 240.794 A Valenta (Cz Rep) 232.25; 5 B Swartley (US) 231.61; 6 A Mikhailov (Rus) 229.98; 7 C Rijavec (Aut) 227.60; 8 A Grishin (Bela) 220.99; 9 S Kravchuk (Ukr) 219.94; 10 N Fontaine (Can) 216.93.Women’s aerials final1 Nikki Stone (US) 193.00pts2 Xu Nannan (Ch) 186.973 Colette Brand (Swit) 171.834 T Kozachenko (Ukr) 167.32; 5 A Tsuper (Ukr) 166.12; 6 H Lid (Nor) 160.18; 7 Guo Dandan (Ch) 159.74; 8 Y Kliukova (Ukr) 153.15; 9 V Brenner (Can) 151.15; 10 O Yunchik (Ukr) 139.05.CROSS-COUNTRY SKIINGMen’s 4 x 10km relay1 Norway 1hr 40min 55.7sec(T Alsgaard, B Daehlie, E Jevne, S Sivertsen)2 Italy 1:40:55.9(M Albarello, S Fauner, F May, F Valbusa)3 Finland 1:42:15.5(J Isometsae, H Kirvesniemi, M Myllyllae, S Repo)4 Sweden 1:42:25.2; 5 Russia 1:42:39.5; 6 Switzerland 1:42:49.2; 7 Japan 1:43:06.7; 8 Germany 1:43:16.1; 9 Austria 1:43:16.5; 10 Estonia 1:44:20.9.BIATHLONMen’s 10km sprint(missed targets in brackets)1 Ole Bjoerndalen (Nor) 27min 16.2sec (0)2 Frode Andresen (Nor) 28:17.8 (2)3 Ville Raikkonen (Fin) 28:21.7 (1)4 V Maigourov (Rus) 28:36.0 (0); 5 J Nakums (Lat) 28:36.9 (1); 6 O Maluhins (Lat) 28:37.4 (1); 7 F Luck (Ger) 28:40.3 (1); 8 H Hanevold (Nor) 28:40.8 (2); 9 P Puurunen (Fin) 28:44.0 (0); P Carrara (Ita) 28:44.2 (2). It’s gonna be a long flight home.”The reception at the other end is not likely to be rapturous, as Mike Modano, scorer of their only goal, acknowledged: “We have to go back and face the consequences,” he said.

“We are going to have to answer some questions, since there was a lot of expectation here.”For the Czechs, however, the home reaction was enormous in a country which regards ice hockey as it’s No 1 sport.”I rang my girlfriend before the match and she told me everyone was watching on television and in the cinemas,” said Martin Straka, who made the Czechs’ equalising goal. “They were even showing it on TV in the schools.”The Czechs had 12 NHL players in their squad of 23 and it was one of those representatives – goaltender Dominik Hasek – whose contribution proved decisive.The 33-year-old Hasek from the Buffalo Sabres – named three times as the NHL’s most valuable player – did to the American forwards what Patrick Roy of Canada had done in the last of the round-robin matches, denying them at every turn.The two goaltenders will come face to face in tomorrow’s semi-finals, following Canada’s 4-1 defeat of Kazakhstan. But after this dismal showing, the NHL franchise shop which has opened just around the corner from the Big Hat rink is unlikely to be doing much business in United States shirts.”It’s disappointing, because everybody expected us to be there at the end,” the US forward Keith Tkachuk said “We expected to be there at the end But it didn’t turn out that way. Not what was required, especially given the early indications that US viewing figures for these Games are down by a third on what they were for the 1994 Olympics.The professional and highly paid NHL players, allowed into the Games for the first time here, were spread across many nationalities. “We don’t have a Dream Team,” Gary Bettman, the NHL Commissioner, said. “We have a Dream Tournament.”For all that, the US collection of NHL players was the flagship in a what was a promotional exercise on a huge scale.

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