Corretja followed that with a forehand drive that Safin dumped intothe net with a forehand volley

Corretja followed that with a forehand drive that Safin dumped intothe net with a forehand volley.Corretja saved two break points at 5-5 and gained his first set point after Safin cracked a wild backhand wide, serving at 5-6, 30-40. The Russian regained his composure in time to hit a service winner and the set moved into the tie-break.Safin recovered from a sluggish start to haul himself back from 1-4 to 4-4, saved a second set point with a service winner at 4-6, and a third with forehand volley after a lively rally at 5-6. An ace took Corretja to 7-6, and Safin netted a backhand approach on the fourth set point after his second serve was returned, the Spaniard winning the shoot-out, 8-6, after 64 minutes.A sullen-looking Safin walked back to his chair at the change-over, and it was hardly surprising that he should find himself under pressure when serving in the opening game of the second set. Two winning serves saved break points that time, but Corretja continued to nag at the Russian’s serve, and Safin double-faulted on a third break point in the fifth game to give the Spaniard a 3-2 lead.Safin hit his chair with his racket, but avoided breaking it. He denied Corretja a 5-2 lead by serving away a break point in in the seventh game, and cracked the Spaniard to love to level to 5-5.

From that moment, Safin took control of the contest.He broke for 7-5 to win the set, hitting a line with a forehand drive, and was 3-0 ahead in the final set before Corretja had time to think.. Christmas shoppers are spending small fortunes in London’s Covent Garden as Bernadette Mulelebwe, from Congo, sits in the nearby Africa Centre, surrounded by images of dying people, talking of how African Aids is beginningto “provoke indifference” in the West. Christmas shoppers are spending small fortunes in London’s Covent Garden as Bernadette Mulelebwe, from Congo, sits in the nearby Africa Centre, surrounded by images of dying people, talking of how African Aids is beginningto “provoke indifference” in the West.
Ms Mulelebwe’s former husband died of Aids, as have too many friends. She runs Foundation Femme Plus (FFP) in the Congolese capital, Kinshasa,for the tens of thousands ofHIV-infected women who are shunned by families and often left to die on the streets.FFP does what it can but it has virtually no budget. Congo, robbed blind by former dictator, Mobutu Sese Seko, is now at war and its leader, Laurent Kabila, spends far more on armaments than on Aids.The photographs on the gallery walls were taken by HIV-infected women, most of who had never used a camera before.

They are an attempt to educate the Congolese public, but also to jolt the affluent and complacent West.Some photographs pay joyful, powerful testimony to FFP’s collective strength. But most are raw reminders of the painful, draining battle the Congolese must wage against the deadly virus, armed with only aspirin and vitamins.Gabrielle Motingia, 48, and HIV positive, was one of the photographers who took part in the project funded by Christian Aid. She brings to Covent Garden from Kinshasa images of huddles of children sleeping on the street, orphaned by Aids, and a solitary child sitting on a hospital bed beside his dying mother, because there is nowhere else for him to go. There are also photographs of tearful wakes and the cultist churches which promise to save the Congolese from Aids.Ms Motingia has first-hand experience of the misery the disease can bring.