1st Japanese to BLOW the quarter finals of the U.S. Open

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Tue Sep 7, 5:49 PM ET / REUTERSShinobu Asagoe of Japan jumps in front of the fountain outside the National Tennis Center in New York...Asagoe is the first Japanese to reach the quarter finals of the U.S. Open....

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Davenport makes quick work of Asagoe, will face Kuznetsova
9/9/04 2:07 AM
NEW YORK (AP)--Lindsay Davenport is two victories from a second U.S. Open title and the No. 1 ranking.
After waiting out a day of rain, Davenport beat Shinobu Asagoe of Japan 6-1, 6-1 in just 46 minutes Wednesday night to reach the Open's semifinals in a match that began with about 100 people in the seats at 9,645-capacity Louis Armstrong Stadium.

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Ha ha!

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I dunno, something about J-athletes and J-sports coverage just fills me with an intense passion for them to lose, LOSE, LOSE, dammit! Because when they don't lose, they're insufferable (try getting away from Kitajima's smug li'l mug on J-TV recently).

Asagoe was at least better looking (there goes the ever-shallow dingo again) than Date Kimiko. Jeebus, Date's been looking worse than Jennifer Capriati during Capriati's days of heavy-duty par-TAY-ing in the mid-90s.