ROME: Double Grand Slam champion Yevgeny Kafelnikov, his form blooming after several seasons of sleepy clay play, sank a leading member of the Spanish Armada yesterday as he inflicted a 6- 4, 7-6 (7-4) third-round defeat on Carlos Moya.
The third seed from Mallorca had no answer at the 2.45-million- euro Rome Masters to the game of the wily Russian, like the Spaniard, a former Roland Garros champion and a world number 1 player.
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