MELBOURNE, JAN 25: Steffi Graf and Monica Seles today revived one of the great rivalries of modern tennis when the former champions set up a quarter-final meeting at the Australian Open.Graf and Seles- the winners of eight Australian Open titles between them- breezed through their fourth round matches on a hot Melbourne Park centre court.Tenth-seeded Graf, champion in Melbourne from 1988-90 and again in 1994, overpowered unseeded Austrian Barbara Schett 6-1, 6-1 in a 47-minute fourth-round romp.Seles followed her old foe onto court and spent exactly the same amount of time there, working only slightly harder to oust 14th seed Sandrine Testud of France 6-0, 6-3.Graf and Seles have not met in a Grand Slam tournament since the German beat Seles in straight sets in the 1996 U S Open final.The sixth-seeds win over Testud took her unbeaten run in Melbourne to 32 matches.Graf holds a 9-4 advantage over Seles in overall matches between the pair, although the grande dames of tennis arelocked at three apiece in their six Grand Slam finals against each other stretching back to Seles's 1990 French Open win.Graf, 29, showed glimpses of her formidable old self against unseeded baseliner Barbara Schett, who came into the tournament with good recent form and upset fourth seed Arantxa Sanchez Vicario in the second round.Graf completely demoralised the Austrian, who surrendered her serve five times and offered up a welter of unforced errors.Seles, too, was back to her old self as she lost only five points on the way to clinching the first set against Testud in 17 minutes. The world number four Seles looked a little less formidable in the second but the Frenchwoman never posed a serious threat.Andre Agassi crashed back to Earth, an unexpected loss to American journeyman Vincent Spadea robbing the tournament of its brightest remaining men's star.Spadea scored the biggest win of his career to beat 1995 Open champion Agassi 6-1, 7-5, 6-7, 6-3 in the fourth round.Agassi's defeat leavesKarol Kucera of Slovakia, Russia's Yevgeny Kafelnikov and American Todd Martin as the only three men's seeds left in the tournament.Martin beat Zimbabwean Wayne Black 7-6, 6-4, 6-4 to become the second seeded player to reach the men's singles quarter-finals.Defending champion and second seed Martina Hingis recovered from a mid-match black spot to advance with a hard-fought 6-3, 6-7, 6-1 win over 16th seed Amanda Coetzer of South Africa. Seventh seed Mary Pierce of France moved ruthlessly through the fourth round, teaching Russian Anna Kournikova a tennis lesson with a 6-0, 6-4 win.Unseeded German Tommy Haas continued his golden run with a 6-2, 6-3, 7-5 victory over Fabrice Santoro.
