[from ATP]
Schuettler Danger to Top Seeds in Chennai
Defending champion Guillermo Canas and German Rainer Schuettler continued
a successful tournament for the seeds at the Tata Open 2003 in Chennai by
advancing to the quarterfinals with ease Thursday. Top seed Canas enjoyed
a 6-4, 6-2 win over Czech Jiri Vanek; Schuettler dropped just three games
in his 6-2, 6-1 demolition of Mark Philippoussis.
At the quarterfinal stage of the tournament, three of the top four seeds
- and four of the top six - are still alive.
Joining Canas and Schuettler in advancing to the quarterfinals Thursday
were Frenchman Jean-Rene Lisnard and Slovak Karol Kucera, who were both
taken to three sets. Lisnard defeated lucky loser Noam Okun 6-0, 2-6, 6-2
; Kucera defeated Cecil Mamiit (USA) 7-6(6), 3-6, 6-3
#WHAT THE PLAYERS SAID# (節錄)
Canas: "I didn't play well today and I'm happy to be in the quarterfinals.
I was a little nervous since I wasn't playing my best. Tomorrow is a new
day and I'll play better."
#FRIDAY PREVIEW# (節錄)
Fourth seed Juan Ignacio Chela enjoyed the best season of his career last
year when he returned a 46-29 match record and finished the ATP Champions
Race 2002 in 23rd place. The Argentine, who won just 10 matches in 2001,
shrugged the tag of clay-court specialist by reaching hard court ATP finals
in Sydney and Long Island, the quarterfinals of the NASDAQ-100 Open in Miami
and the fourth round of the US Open. (His second career title did come on
clay in Amersfoort.) Chela plays German qualifier Tomas Behrend for a place
in the semifinals.
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