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Wednesday March 5, 2003 3:28 PM AEDT
ABC Online, Australia
Hewitt leads Australian charge in Arizona
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Australian world number one Lleyton Hewitt, alongside compatriots
Mark Philippoussis and Scott Draper, has moved into the second round
of the $US 385,000 tennis tournament in Arizona.
Top seed Hewitt advanced unscathed in his first match since doubles in
the Davis Cup against Britain last month, beating Spain's Fernando Vicente
6-4, 6-3.
Philippoussis, a wildcard entry like his compatriot, booked victory over
seventh seed Juan Chela, ousting the Argentine 7-6 (7/2), 3-6, 6-1 in 93
minutes.
Lucky loser Scott Draper joined the Australian party, defeating Swede Jonas
Bjorkman 6-3, 7-6 (7-5).
A "Wayne's World" battle went against hard-hitting Australian Wayne Arthurs,
who absorbed his nation's lone defeat on the day, going down to Australian
Open semi-finalist Wayne Ferreira of South Africa 7-5, 6-7 (5/7), 6-2.
Hewitt, the 2000 champion and a 1999 finalist here, improved to 13-2 at the
desert venue as he kept Vicente from again advancing past the first round.
"I was a little rusty in first match," Hewitt said.
"It had a weird start with three straight breaks of serve. He seemed to
play a lot better on my service games than his.
"But if I'm working to get to my best tennis this week, this was a great
match. I couldn't have asked for more, being off the court in two sets."
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Hewitt wins first match in Scottsdale
By Mel Reisner
ASSOCIATED PRESS
8:11 p.m., March 4, 2003
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. ?Looking strong after a month off, Lleyton Hewitt
defeated Spain's Fernando Vicente 6-4, 6-3 in the first round of the
Franklin Templeton Tennis Classic on Tuesday night.
The 22-year-old Australian, the world's top-ranked player, hadn't played
since the Davis Cup against Britain four weeks ago, and this is his first
singles tournament since he was beaten in the fourth round at the Australian
Open in January.
Hewitt felt drained after defending the ATP's No. 1 ranking every week last
year and winning five titles, including Wimbledon, and he refused to commit
to Scottsdale.
But he accepted a wild-card entry after spending last week watching his
Belgian girlfriend, Kim Clijsters, reach the final of the State Farm
Women's Tennis Classic on the same hardcourts.
"No matter how I go this week, it's going to give me a few matches going
into Indian Wells and Miami," Hewitt said. "But the main thing was, I felt
like I was ready to play."
Hewitt, who won the title here in 2000, improved to 13-2 in the tournament
by breaking Vicente twice in the first three games of the second set to go
up 4-0. He then repeated the break in the ninth game.
Hewitt said he could feel the improvement as the match went on.
"I felt like early on I was pushing a little bit too much on my forehand
and wasn't sort of hitting through the ball like I should have been," he said.
"And when you get on that roll and you get up a set and a break, you go onto
cruise control a little bit, and obviously you get a lot more confident."
Seventh-seeded Juan Ignacio Chela of Argentina fell in the first round,
beaten by Australia's Mark Philippoussis 7-6 (2), 3-6, 6-1. But that was
less of a surprise, since Philippoussis won at Scottsdale in 1997 and is
11-2 in the event.
The other seeded players in the day session beat qualifiers: Fifth-seeded
Rainer Schuettler of Germany beat Harel Levy of Israel 2-6, 7-5, 6-1; and
sixth-seeded Alex Corretja of Spain defeated Dmitry Tursunov of Russia 6-4,
6-2.
Arnaud Di Pasquale of France beat Luis Horna of Peru 6-2, 3-6, 6-3;
Argentine Mariano Zabaleta ousted American Robby Ginepri 7-6 (6), 6-3;
Scott Draper of Australia beat Jonas Bjorkman of Sweden 6-3, 7-6 (5);
and Wayne Ferreira of South Africa beat Wayne Arthurs of Australia 7-5,
6-7 (5), 6-2.
The 20-year-old Lapentti, the youngest player in the field, had to beat
2001 Scottsdale winner Francisco Clavet of Spain in the final qualifying
round to enter his first main draw. But he wasn't in awe when he got there.
"I'm not afraid of playing these guys," he said.
Lapentti, ranked 311th, had the 12th-ranked Srichaphan reeling early.
Srichaphan double-faulted three times, while Lapentti broke him in the
second game. In the tiebreaker, Lapentti trailed only after the first serve.
His momentum continued in the second set. He broke Srichaphan in the
first and fifth games, helped by two more of the Thai's six double faults.
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