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Entry system ranking: 143 (282 points (-1))

Champions Race: 126 (7 points)(-3)

Current tournament: 

TMS Monte Carlos

Place: Monte Carlo, Monaco
Date: April 15-21, 2002
Draw Size: 64
Surface: Clay
Prize Money: US $ 2,578,000
Stadium Court Seating: 7,000           Tournament Director: Francis Truchi        

Next tournament:

BMW Open

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Hewitt to play Norman

Sydney can expect a tense final as two tennis champions, Magnus Norman and LLeyton Hewitt, face each other in a showdown for their first title of the year.

Defending champion, Lleyton Hewitt, saw off another French challenger when he dismissed Sebastien Grosjean 6-3, 4-6, 6-4. The No. 2 seed will now face a tough battle in No. 1 seed, Norman, who finished last year in fourth position in the ATP Champions Race, if he wants to retain the adidas International title.

Norman leads 2:1

Magnus Norman secured his final place with a dismissal of compatriot Jonas Bjorkman but Bjorkman didn't go down without a struggle.

Playing in blistering heat, the two Swedes battled it out for more than two and a half hours before Norman finally emerged victorious. Bjorkman fought back from 3-1 down to win the opening set in 55 minutes but Norman recovered to win the next two sets.

Norman broke his fellow Swede to win the second set then again in the 12th game of the final set just when it looked as though a tiebreak would be needed to decide the outcome. The score was 5-7, 6-3, 7-5.

Hewitt will have a harder time of it this year in winning the tournament. Last year saw him defeat compatriot Jason Stoltenberg. The home crowd and his position of defending champion will be on his side, however Norman too was a winner at this time of year in 2000: he clinched the Heinekin Open in Auckland. And Norman leads their head-to-heads.

2000 saw the 24-year-old Swede defeat the Australian teenager at the Tennis Masters Series - Roma, where Norman went on to clinch the title, and put a stop to Hewitt's dreams of success in the Australian Open by an ousting in R16. Hewitt won their first match in 1999 in Scottsdale.

Whoever wins, there will be a New Balls Please! player claiming a victory early in the year.

Source: ATP Tennis