Re: Indian Wells第四輪賽程

看板Hewitt作者noanoa (first title of 2003:D)時間22年前 (2003/03/15 10:14)推噓2(2推 0噓 0→)

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Hewitt Holds No.1; Reaches Semis Defending champion Lleyton Hewitt won through to the semifinals of the Pacific Life Open for the third consecutive year when he defeated Robby Ginepri 6-4, 6-2 Friday. Hewitt's victory ensured that he would retain the No.1 ranking that he would have surrendered to Andre Agassi had he lost today. Hewitt has held the No.1 position in the ATP Entry Rankings for 69 consecutive weeks - the second longest streak for any first-time No.1 behind Jimmy Connors (160 weeks). Hewitt thrashed Ginepri 6-0, 6-0 when they met for the first time in Cincinnati last year. But the young American qualifier, who defeated an out-of-sorts Marat Safin 6-0, 6-1 on Thursday, produced a much more competitive match this time. He held serve to love in the opening game of the match and later twice held break point for a 4-2 lead in the first set. Hewitt, who won the Scottsdale title last week, has won nine consecutive matches and is now 13-1 on the year, his only loss coming in the fourth round of the Australian Open to Younes El Aynaoui, whom he saved three match points against in the first round here this week. "It's nine in 11 days I've won now," Hewitt said. "That's a lot of tennis. You throw in the doubles that I played [Hewitt made the Scottsdale doubles final with Mark Philippoussis] as well as making the final there. I've got that match toughness going now, match hardened. I'd like to keep it going. You don't want to get carried away because you're on a winning streak, you've got to keep goi ng. Go out there with an open mind and play as well as you can." Asked if he felt unbeatable, Hewitt said: "No, not really. Not unbeatable. I don't think anyone's unbeatable. I feel like my confidence is high at the momen t. I feel like I can beat anyone on any given day, yes. But unbeatable...I think you can leave that to Tiger.:)" Hewitt paid tribute to his semifinal opponent, Vince Spadea. "You've got to take your hat off to Vince. Hell of an effort for what he's done. The way that he's come back after losing so many first rounds there for a while... he obviously broke the drought against Rusedski at Wimbledon. We really didn't see him for a while after that. He was playing the Challengers and the Futures. The way he's bounced back and gone about his business very quietly, sort of got his ranking back up there, it's pretty amazing." http://us.news1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20030314/i/1047684693.2281955408.jpg