NOTEBOOK | Australian Open

From Russia, with temper: Anastasia Myskina is the first to admit she could stand to be a little calmer on the court. The sixth-seeded Russian beat No. 9 Chanda Rubin 6-7 (3), 6-2, 6-2 Monday to reach the quarterfinals. Along the way, she threw her racket and gestured toward her coach, Jens Gerlach, for not supporting her more vocally during the match. "He's kind of like a wall there. ... He has to show me something, show some emotions to me," Myskina said. "He has to give me something back." Her lapses can hurt her game, she acknowledged. "Sometimes I lose my concentration a bit," Myskina said. "I know it's not the best part of me, so I just try to work on this. It's pretty hard." She was asked what it would be like to be her coach. "It's not easy for sure. I'm really tough girl on the court, really nice off the court ... on the court, I'm not nice," she said. She said she always apologizes afterward, adding that Gerlach understands her. "He knows that I don't really meant it. ... He knows me really well, that I'm really emotional," she said. "But it's only on the court."Cup calendar: Mark Philippoussis thinks the opening round of the Davis Cup is too close to the end of the Australian Open. "A Grand Slam is an event where it takes a lot out of you," said Philippoussis, who led Australia's Davis Cup final win over Spain last year. He will join teammates in Adelaide the week after the Open for the start of Australia's Cup defense. "To have the Davis Cup that following weekend is, I think, a little too soon, especially for the people who end up doing extremely well in the Australian Open and who have to travel to Europe or back to America," he said.College coach: Lisa Raymond is getting an assist from her college coach. Raymond, who upset Venus Williams and has advanced to the quarterfinals, said she and Andy Brandi started working together again in May after a nine-year break. Brandi is the uncle of WTA tour player Kristina Brandi, "There's just some people in your life, whether it's in your career, just in your personal life, that you click with," Raymond said after being Tatiana Golovin in the fourth round. "They make you feel good about yourself, and Andy does that with me. He's almost like a second father to me, and always has been." Raymond, the 1992 and 1993 NCAA singles champion for Florida, said Brandi made her "feel so good about myself and my tennis."Sweet 16: Tatiana Golovin turned 16 Sunday and has plenty celebrate even though she lost to Raymond. The Russian-born French teenager was the youngest player remaining in the women's draw and lifted her ranking from 354th to about 140th. "My goal was to get, like, one or two rounds, so it was great that I lost in the fourth," said Golovin, who received a wild card into the main draw because of an agreement between the French and Australian tennis federations. "Now I can go and celebrate my birthday."