TENNIS ROUNDUP Kim Clijsters beats Mauresmo in Rome

She is playing at the top of her game as the French Open approaches.
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ROME -- Two points from losing, Kim Clijsters came back to beat Amelie Mauresmo 3-6, 7-6 (3), 6-0 Sunday at the Italian Open for her third title of the year.
Trailing 6-5 in the second set, Clijsters broke Mauresmo's serve to get to a tie-breaker, then never trailed again.
"I knew she was getting close and I really tried not to give it to her," Clijsters said. I just kept hanging in there.
"Last week in Berlin I had a few match points, so it's nice to win as well."
Peak performance
Clijsters, who lost in three sets to Justine Henin-Hardenne in the final of the German Open last week, also won tournaments at Sydney and Indian Wells. She is playing at the top of her game as the French Open approaches. The year's second Grand Slam tournament starts May 26.
Mauresmo eliminated top-ranked Serena Williams and Jennifer Capriati in her previous two matches here and seemed to tire as the final went on. Her left thigh was bandaged from the start.
Two double faults by Mauresmo gave Clijsters a 5-0 lead in the final set and then Clijsters closed out the match with a drop shot.
"She had an easier match than me yesterday," Mauresmo said. "But you've got to give her credit to stay in the match and finally win it."
Former President Bush attended the match.
In the doubles final, Martina Navratilova paired with Svetlana Kuznetsova to beat Jelena Dokic and Nadia Petrova 6-4, 5-7, 6-2. It's the third championship of 2003 for the 46-year-old Navratilova and the 17-year-old Kuznetsova.
Navratilova and Kuznetsova will aim for another championship together in the French Open.
Coria wins Hamburg title
HAMBURG, Germany -- Guillermo Coria beat fellow Argentine Agustin Calleri 6-3, 6-4, 6-4 Sunday to win the Hamburg Masters for his second career ATP Tour title.
Coria, who was seeded 12th, dominated the final, relentlessly chasing down shots and making few errors.
Calleri was 24-7 on clay this year heading into the match, but he had 48 unforced errors to Coria's 12.
Coria lost only one set all week at this $2.4 million tournament, a major tuneup for the French Open, which starts May 26.
"There are many favorites for Paris, but that's a tournament that always has many upsets," Coria said. "If I play at the level I've been playing the last few weeks, I can do well.
"My confidence is very high now and I hope I'll still be playing in the second week in Paris."
Coria, 21, picked up his first title since winning at Vina del Mar in 2001 -- the same year his career was put on hold by a seventh-month suspension after testing positive for a banned substance. He won the Roland Garros junior title in 1999.
Coria is the second Argentine to win in Hamburg, an event that began in 1892; Guillermo Vilas in 1978 was the other. Coria was named after Vilas.
For the first time in Masters Series history, all four semifinalists were from the same country -- Argentina. It was also the first time four Argentines made it to the semifinals at the same tournament.
Raiffeisen Grand Prix
ST. POELTEN, Austria -- David Sanchez of Spain beat Markus Hipfl of Austria 6-1, 6-0 Sunday in the first round of the Raiffeisen Grand Prix.
Also, Davide Sanguinetti of Italy defeated Sargis Sargsian of Armenia 6-3, 6-4 and Jean-Rene Lisnard of France topped Michel Kratochvil of Switzerland 7-5, 7-6 (5).
World Team Cup
DUESSELDORF, Germany -- James Blake, Todd Martin and Mardy Fish combined to lead the United States past Spain 2-1 Sunday in round-robin action at the clay-court World Team Cup.
Blake lost to 1998 French Open champion Carlos Moya 7-6 (2), 7-5, Martin beat Alex Corretja 6-3, 6-4, and then Blake paired with Fish to win the doubles match against Corretja and Fernado Vicente 6-2, 7-6 (9).
In other action at this French Open tuneup, the Czech Republic beat top-ranked Lleyton Hewitt and Australia 2-1.
The World Team Cup is contested by eight teams split into two groups. The winners of each group advance to Saturday's final.