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Spain's Albert Costa, who defeated compatriot Juan Carlos Ferrero to win the French Open men's title, makes a backhand return, in Paris on Sunday.
Costa dominated the first two sets against the error-prone Ferrero, winning 6-1, 6-0. But Ferrero broke Costa in the 10th game, when Costa missed a drop shot, to capture the third 6-4, but Costa wrapped up the match in the fourth set by winning it 6-3 on a cool day at Roland Garros. After a 25-minute rain delay in the first set, Costa ran off 11 straight games. He needed just 46 minutes to go up two sets to none against a nervous and downtrodden Ferrero, whose frustrations were visible in the first Grand Slam final for each player. Costa hit an ace to hold his serve for a 2-1 lead and then breezed, twice breaking his younger opponent's serve. And Ferrero's troubles only escalated in the second as the steady groundstrokes that got him to the final deserted him. But in the third, Ferrero, who eliminated Andre Agassi in the quarterfinals, started putting more balls in play and his strokes became a little more consistent against his fellow Spaniard. Costa, who will turn 27 later this month and is scheduled to be married on Friday, is competing in his ninth straight French Open. Ferrero, 22, is playing for just the third time at Roland Garros and made the semifinals in his first two tries. Pascual-Suarez pair retains title Spain's Virginia Ruano Pascual and Argentine Paola Suarez retained their French Open women's doubles crown on Sunday when they beat American Lisa Raymond and Australian Rennae Stubbs 6-4, 6-2. Top seeds Raymond and Stubbs, the U.S. Open and Wimbledon champions, were outclassed by two claycourt specialists, who were playing in their third successive Roland Garros final. Zimbabwean brother and sister pair Wayne and Cara Black beat Mark Knowles, of the Bahamas, and Russian Elena Bovina 6-3, 6-3 in the mixed doubles final. Haarhuis-Kafelnikov duo wins doubles Earlier on Saturday, the unseeded combination of Yevgeny Kafelnikov and Paul Haarhuis defeated reigning Australian Open titlists and the second seeds Mark Knowles and Daniel Nestor 7-5, 6-4 to win the men's doubles title.
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