Ten: Massu strikes gold again for Chile

AAP General News (Australia)
08-23-2004
Ten: Massu strikes gold again for Chile

ATHENS, Aug 22 AFP - Nicolas Massu of Chile won the Olympic men's singles tennis gold
medal when he beat American Mardy Fish 6-3, 3-6, 2-6, 6-3, 6-4 in tonight's final, 16
hours after winning the doubles with Fernando Gonzalez.

Massu's victory capped a tremendous day in Olympic history for Chile.

His five set doubles win was Chile's first ever Olympic gold medal in any sport. It
finished at 2:40am this morning and after the medals ceremony he had to go to doping control
and for a massage.

But tonight, after hardly any sleep he fought back from two sets-to-one down to win
in exactly four hours of momentous tennis.

Gonzalez, who lost to Fish in the semi-finals, beat American Taylor Dent for the bronze
medal to give Chile three Olympic medals - two golds and a bronze.

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