Key Biscayne (USA), march 21st (AFP)

A new meeting between Lindsay Davenport and Amélie Mauresmo for a revenge match of the half final of the Australian Open, where the french player had won will not happen. Mauresmo had been eliminated sunday in the 3rd round at Key Biscayne, where she was ranked 14, by the russian Elena Likhotseva 4-6, 7-6 (7/5), 6-1.

"It was a day where nothing goes well", explained Mauresmo, 3rd big name of the women draw to fall after her fellow county-women Sandrine Testud (N. 11) and the spanish Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario (N.5).

The french woman didn't play since her lost at the Open Gaz de France at Bercy against Serena Williams. An hurting arm had disturb her training at St-Tropez before to move to Folrida for the Key Biscayne tournament. " but it's not a reason. I didn't feel any pain. It didn't disturb me. "

Mauresmo, serving badly, had win the first set 6-4. The russian, ranked 23 in the world, take her distance at 3-1 in the second set, but Mauresmo came back. It was a though game. The russian won the second set by winning the tie break 7/5. The 3rd set was a formality win 6-1 for the russian.

"I take it hard moraly, i was exusted ", explained Mauresmo, who fighted hard but wasn't able to get out of the regularity imposed by her opponent. " i don't know why, i was missing of strenght. I had no arm, no leg, not anything worked. "

A match to forget fast for Mauresmo, who found a small consolation by remarqueing that she almost won the match by "playing at 50% of my possibility".