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© St. Petersburg Times, published July 31, 2002
Second seed Jennifer Capriati beat Ashley Harkleroad 6-0, 6-3 in 53 minutes in a second-round match Tuesday at the Acura Classic in Carlsbad, Calif.
Capriati used powerful groundstrokes to overwhelm Harkleroad, 17, a fellow Wesley Chapel resident.
Also in the second round, No. 6 Jelena Dokic beat Gala Leon Garcia 6-2, 7-5. Also, No. 8 Elena Dementieva, No. 9 Anastasia Myskina, No. 12 Anna Smashnova and No. 14 Chanda Rubin won.
MORE TENNIS: Martina Hingis won't play in next month's U.S. Open, the third straight Grand Slam she'll miss while recovering from ankle surgery. ... At the Tennis Masters Series event in Toronto, Pete Sampras beat Wayne Ferreira 7-6 (8-6), 5-7, 6-4. Other winners were No. 2 seed Marat Safin, No. 3 Tommy Haas, No. 5 Yevgeny Kafelnikov and No. 12 Andy Roddick.
COLLEGES: Jason Partington was named assistant volleyball coach at South Florida. A 1993 Osceola graduate, where he starred in soccer and as a football kicker, Partington played volleyball for Brigham Young and Eckerd College. ... The NCAA is investigating possible violations at Fresno State, including the men's basketball team. The NCAA is examining whether a restaurant fed players for free and whether a sports agent provided benefits to a player. Women's basketball (recruiting) and men's soccer (improper athletic aid) are also under investigation.
AUTOS: NASCAR fined and suspended Michael Kadlecik, crew chief for Busch Grand National driver Tony Raines, for a violation in Saturday's NetZero 250. Kadlecik was fined $2,500 and suspended until Aug. 21 for an improperly attached weight. ... An autopsy showed Robert Kasik, 56, of Roscoe, Ill., had a heart attack before he was killed when his car hit a wall of tires in a weekend GT-1 race at Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wis.
HORSES: War Emblem is back in Sunday's Haskell Invitational at Monmouth, N.J. The Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner was entered, then withdrawn; then trainer Bob Baffert decided the horse would run after a workout Monday.
SOCCER: Paul Gascoigne will return to Europe today after a five-day tryout with D.C. United; the MLS club said it hopes to have a decision on whether to sign the former England midfielder.
SWIMMING: Ian Thorpe improved his world record in the 400-meter freestyle in 3 minutes 40.08 seconds to win at the Commonwealth Games in Manchester, England. He set the mark of 3:40.17 last year. ... Zoe Baker also broke a world record at the Commonwealth Games in the 50 breaststroke, in 30.57 seconds. ... Sweden's Anna-Karin Kammerling broke the 50 butterfly world mark in 25.57 seconds at the European Championships in Berlin.
ARENA FOOTBALL: Storm receiver/linebacker Lawrence Samuels was named Ironman of the Week for his performance in Saturday's 66-41 win over Los Angeles in the first round of the playoffs. He caught five passes for 61 yards, including a 13-yard touchdown, and had an interception.
GOLF: Augusta National is going through more changes, though not to the scale of the ones made before this year's Masters. The 435-yard par-4 fifth will be about 20 yards longer, the bunker complex on the left is being moved about 80 yards closer to the green and the bunkers and fairway will shift to the right to create more of a dogleg.
OLYMPICS: The USOC executive committee voted to allow a site evaluation team to cut the field of U.S. contenders for the 2012 Summer Games from four to two on Aug. 27.
CYCLING: Raimondas Rumsas, third in the Tour de France, insisted he used no banned substances during the race and that drugs found on his wife were medications for his mother-in-law.
-- FRANK PASTOR, PETE YOUNG, TIMES WIRES