WIMBLEDON, England -- Goran Ivanisevic outslugged Andy Roddick on Friday, taking a big step in his own career revival while ending the American teen-ager's Wimbledon debut.

	Goran Ivanisevic became the first wild card to win a championship at Wimbledon.

Ivanisevic, a three-time runner-up at Wimbledon, dropped his racket and pulled his white shirt off as his 41st ace landed to end the match. Roddick doffed the white cap he wears backwards and the two had an unusually long chat at the net.

Ivanisevic won the battle of the belters 7-6 (5), 7-5, 3-6, 6-3 to move into the fourth round. Once ranked second in the world, Ivanisevic, 29, had dropped to 125th and got into the tournament with a wild card.

"The first day I came here (this year) I said, `I want to leave this place proud of myself,"' Ivanisevic said. "So far, I can't be prouder than I am."

Ivanisevic's 41 aces were the most hit in 2001 -- eclipsing Roddick's 37 at the French Open. The 41 aces are the most hit since Richard Krajicek's circuit-best 49 at the 1999 U.S. Open.

Roddick, 18, is ranked 33rd and touted as his country's next star. He had 20 aces but was stymied throughout by Ivanisevic's serve. In the second set, Roddick put only four of the left-handed Ivanisevic's 25 serves into play.

"It's tough when you feel you don't even have a chance in the return game," Roddick said. "You feel pretty helpless."

The Croatian broke Roddick's serve in the eighth game of the fourth set to go up 5-3 and serve for the match. He led 40-15 but wasted two break points then gave Roddick the advantage with a shot into the net.

Ivanisevic charged back with an ace that Roddick, who hadn't complained to that point, thought was out.

"I don't get much of a chance anyway," he told umpire Mohamed Lahyani, "but when you miss balls that are out by 2 inches ..."

He didn't finish the sentence, and then Ivanisevic finished the match with a service winner and his last ace.

Bare-chested, he flexed his arm muscles, smiled broadly and flung his shirt into the crowd.

"Nobody gave me any chance. Nobody believed I could do it, but I did," Ivanisevic said of reaching the fourth round. "I think I can go a long way this time."

His victory set up a fourth-round match with Greg Rusedski, a powerful hitter whose 149 mph serve is the fastest recorded on the men's tour. Rusedski, one of two British players left in the tournament, advanced with a 6-1, 6-4, 6-4 victory against eighth-seeded Juan Carlos Ferrero.

"I've played (Ivanisevic) eight or nine times. I've lost every time," Rusedski said.

The hard hitting carried over from Thursday, when Taylor Dent hit the fastest recorded serve in Wimbledon history -- 144 mph -- but lost to Lleyton Hewitt 1-6, 7-5, 6-3, 6-7 (2), 6-3.

"You get frustrated" facing powerful serves, Hewitt said. "It's something that you just have to try and shrug off, keep plugging away. I know I'm a good enough returner to get my opportunities."

He capitalized on them in the past month, winning two tournaments on grass after reaching the quarterfinals of the French Open on clay. Thursday's win was his 12th in a row.

But Dent, a 20-year-old Californian with just one win in a Grand Slam match before this year, showed the same emotion and shot-making ability as the fifth-seeded Hewitt, energizing the Centre Court crowd.

"I just got into the mode of being aggressive again recently, so it's really been good," Dent said.