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Keothavong bows out
3:15am Saturday 30th August 2008
Olympic champion Elena Dementieva brought British number one Anne Keothavong's surprise run at the US Open to a close in straight sets in New York.
Dementieva is bidding to be just the third player to land an Olympic and US Open double after Steffi Graf in 1988 and Venus Williams in 2000.
The Russian advanced to the fourth round and a meeting with China's world number 36 La Ni, after beating 24-year-old Keothavong 6-3 6-4 on the Louis Armstrong Stadium court.
Yet the match was not at all one-sided, with Keothavong pushing Dementieva all the way only to convert just three of 10 break points in the 88-minute encounter.
Keothavong had been the first British woman to reach the US Open third round since Sara Gomer and Jo Durie in 1991 and she was bidding to become the first to reach the fourth round since Durie in the same year.
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