INDIAN WELLS, Calif. -For everything Roger Federer did right, the world's top-ranked player did something wrong. Eventually, his errant shotmaking did him in.
Marcos Baghdatis upset Federer 5-7, 7-5, 7-6 (4) Tuesday night in the third round of the BNP Paribas Open, beating the Swiss for the first time in seven meetings.
A joyous Baghdatis bent down and kissed the court, having closed out the taut contest in which their booming serves kept rallies brief and Federer wasted three match points.
"It's the best win of my career," he said. "I lost a lot of matches against those top guys, and it's a relief to win. It's a great moment for me."
Federer hadn't lost when holding a match point since 2006 in Rome.
"Roger was a bit too aggressive. He was missing a lot of balls," Baghdatis said. "I was more calm than him."
Federer lost for just the second time in 13 matches this year in his first tournament since winning his 16th Grand Slam title at the Australian Open in January.
INDIAN WELLS, Calif. (AP) -- Novak Djokovic built up a head of steam while losing nine consecutive games over two sets. He let it out by tossing his ballcap after finally winning a game in the third.
"If I could pull my hair off, I would do it in that moment," he said.
That wasn't the only trouble the world's No. 2 player ran into Monday.
Djokovic staved off triple match point in the third to beat Philipp Kohlschreiber of Germany 6-3, 2-6, 7-6 (3) in third-round play at the BNP Paribas Open.
Kim Clijsters was upset 4-6, 6-1, 7-6 (4) by Alisa Kleybanova of Russia, joining top-seeded Svetlana Kuznetsova, No. 3 Victoria Azarenka, No. 10 Maria Sharapova and Justine Henin on the sidelines before the fourth round.
"You want to see those big names play, but there's a lot of younger girls who are making it tough," Clijsters said.
She had won 15 straight matches at Indian Wells, including titles in 2003 and '05, the last time she played here. But the Belgian, who unretired last year and won the U.S. Open, came unglued after leading 4-0 in the tiebreak. She gave up seven consecutive points to lose.
INDIAN WELLS, Calif. (AP) -- Andre Agassi told ESPN.com he was "out of line" and apologized for poking fun at Pete Sampras during a charity match last week.
Longtime rivals Agassi and Sampras were wearing microphones during the match, and the crowd at Indian Wells Tennis Garden in California got an earful during an exchange that started lighthearted but turned testy.
At one point Sampras mimicked Agassi's pigeon-toed walk, which drew laughs from the crowd.
Then Agassi chided Sampras for being stingy. In his book, Agassi criticized Sampras for being a poor tipper.
Sampras responded with a high, hard serve that forced Agassi, who was teamed with Rafael Nadal, to duck.
Both Agassi and Sampras were smiling, but neither showed up at the post-match news conference.
"It was out of line," Agassi told ESPN.com on Monday. "It was inappropriate. The night was on fire. We were all having fun. I was trying to be comedic. I only had a split second to make a decision. I went for it and it fell flat. I was trying to get past it, but Pete didn't really let me get past it. He didn't really roll with it. I've texted Pete to ask him if I can apologize in person."
"The joke fell flat and I'm sorry," he added. "My hope was that the night was still enjoyable."
A capacity crowd of 16,100 filled the stadium for the Hit for Haiti fund-raising exhibition Friday night put together by Oracle founder Larry Ellison, who purchased the tournament at Indian Wells in December.
The event helped raise $1 million to aid relief efforts in the earthquake-ravaged island nation.
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INDIAN WELLS, Calif. -- When it was over, and Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi had finished embarrassing themselves, embarrassing tennis by turning a charity event for a country with a quarter of a million dead into a playground to settle their little scores and resolve their little hurt feelings, apparently they were sent to their rooms.
They are still there, huffing and puffing, arms-crossed with their bottom lips sticking out. They didn't show up for the post-event press conference to talk about Haiti, and they still haven't emerged.
How is it possible that neither of these guys has had the decency to offer an apology yet?
We saw on Friday at the Hit for Haiti how small both of them really are, but these two sports giants have only managed to continue shrinking since.
"Now being a father,'' Roger Federer said Sunday night, "I thought maybe we'd have to give both guys like a timeout or something.''
This was a study in rivalry. But it comes off like a Seinfeld episode, when a charity event turns ugly through self-obsession.
For some reason, people seem to want to focus on which one was more wrong Friday night. Well, the he-started-it argument works fine in second grade, but for grownups, it doesn't matter.
INDIAN WELLS, Calif. -- Rafael Nadal's problems have not just been in his knees, but in his head, too. And that has made it doubly difficult to figure out where he stands and when he'll be right again or for how long. Or if ever.
He keeps coming back, even this week at Indian Wells, saying work is the only path, when it would seem that a wear-and-tear injury such as tendinitis would require rest, and certainly not the beating of hard courts. That's just more confusion.
"My schedule is the same like every year,'' he said. "I don't think I have to change when the results (were) always really good doing the same.''
Results were good? How much time has he missed with injury the past 10 months?
Whatever, Saturday gave us the next chapter in Nadal's career. He returned for the first time since the Australian Open in January, when his knees forced him to quit during a match with Andy Murray.
Nadal looked great in beating Rainier Schuettler 6-4, 6-4. He ran hard, swung out on his backhand, looked strong again. Even his slice backhand was less desperation than plan.
Just like that, Nadal was Nadal again, looking more confident than I've seen him in a long time.
INDIAN WELLS, Calif. -For everything 
INDIAN WELLS, Calif. (AP) -- Novak Djokovic built up a head of steam while losing nine consecutive games over two sets. He let it out by tossing his ballcap after finally winning a game in the third.
INDIAN WELLS, Calif. (AP) -- Andre Agassi told ESPN.com he was "out of line" and apologized for poking fun at Pete Sampras during a charity match last week.
INDIAN WELLS, Calif. -- When it was over, and Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi had finished embarrassing themselves, embarrassing tennis by turning a charity event for a country with a quarter of a million dead into a playground to settle their little scores and resolve their little hurt feelings, apparently they were sent to their rooms.
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