The American loses his first match of 2003.
At the Franklin Templeton Tennis Classic in Scottsdale wild card entry Thomas
Enqvist improved his lifetime record to 5-4 against Agassi with the three-set
victory. The win over No. 2 Agassi in the ATP Entry Rankings is his best win
since beating No. 2 Pete Sampras in the quarterfinals of Indian Wells in
2000. It was also the Swede's second ATP match win of the season (2-6).
This marked Agassi's first match loss of the season after opening with
a 12-0 start.
Taylor Dent improved his match-winning streak to six with a 6-3, 7-5 victory
over Andrei Pavel. Dent, who was coming off his second career ATP title in
Memphis last month, fired 10 aces in the match.
In the second round Dent takes on countryman Cecil Mamiit, who surprised No.
8 seed Xavier Malisse 7-6(5), 7-6(3) after losing the previous two matches
against the Belgian.
WHAT THE PLAYERS SAID
Enqvist: "I think I played really, really well and I was going for my shots.
Obviously after I lost the tie-break I was disappointed but I played well the
rest of the match. I like to play Andre because we have some good matches and
rallies and it's a lot of fun."
我想我打得真的非常、非常地好。當我輸掉搶七後，我的確沮喪，但接下來我打得非常好。
我喜歡跟Andre比賽，因為我們有過很棒的對決比賽，它充滿了樂趣。
On recording his second win of the season "It's important because I've been
working hard and trying to stay away from injuries. I just need a lot of
matches. My big goal is to win a Grand Slam and that motivates me to play."
Agassi: "Thomas is a great player. He hits the ball big and he has good
patches on his serve and some good patches on his returns. When he puts
it all together he is pretty tough to beat."
"He got the early break in each set and when he started feeling the momentum,
he stepped up and I didn't raise my game to answer that. He got his nose in
front and never let me back in it."
"I had some chances. I won the first set and almost got my teeth back into
the second. It's credit to him the way he played in the third."
Thomas是一個很棒的選手。他有很強大的擊球能力、發球，並在接發球局時，能夠將他
的球技連結發揮得很好。當他全部作到時，他真是十分難以去擊倒。在兩盤內他提早破
了我的發球局，他提升了自己的狀態，而我無法也提升我自己去回應他。他不再回頭讓我
去挽回局面。我有一些機會，我贏了第一盤並將我的狀態帶到第二盤。他在第三盤的表現
值得讚許。
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真想看這場比賽啊…>.<…一定很精采…
Dent: "The confidence is getting there and this was my first (ATP) match
outdoors this year. All in all I played a good match. I think it's all the
hard work that I've put in is paying off."
Mamiit: "I didn't have much of a game plan in Queen's last year when we last
played. My game plan today was to come in and work his backhand. I needed to
be mobile. I know I had a chance to win going into the tie-break and once I
got ahead I was in control."
TUESDAY PREVIEW
Top seed and wild card Lleyton Hewitt takes on Spain's Fernando Vicente in
his first match since playing Davis Cup against Great Britain in the
beginning of February. The Australian has yet to make it to the
quarterfinals on the ATP circuit this season, while Vicente was
among the last eight in Doha.
Hewitt has a 12-2 record in Scottsdale after capturing the title in
2000 (d. Tim Henman), as well as reaching the final in 1999 (l. to
Jan-Michael Gambill) and the semifinals in 2001 (l. to Francisco Clavet).
Vicente has yet to make it past the second round here in Arizona.
Another Australian wild card, Mark Philippoussis, meets No. 7 seed Juan
Igancio Chela. Philippoussis won the Scottsdale title in 1997 (d. Richey
Reneberg) and advanced to the final in 1995 (l. to Jim Courier) and sports
a 10-2 record at the Franklin Templeton Tennis Classic. Chela was a
quarterfinalist one year ago (l. to Andre Agassi). The Argentine started
the 2003 season by advancing to the semifinals in Chennai (l. to Karol Kucera).
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