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Hingis moves into quarters

Second-seeded Hingis advances to quarterfinals

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Posted: Friday August 06, 1999 12:48 AM

As the world's No. 2 player, Martina Hingis is in her first tournament since being knocked out in the first round of Wimbledon a month ago. AP

CARLSBAD, California (AP) -- Martina Hingis lost just seven points on her serve in the second set and beat Dominique Van Roost 6-2, 6-4 on Thursday in the quarterfinals of the TIG Classic.

Hingis broke Van Roost twice in rolling through the first set in 31 minutes.

"I played very well and focused from the beginning," she said. "Those games I won easily, I never struggled on my serve. I picked up on my game a little more."

Hingis, the No. 2 seed, advanced to a semifinal against the winner of Friday's match between seventh-seeded Amanda Coetzer and Amy Frazier.

Other quarterfinal pairings Friday are top-seeded Lindsay Davenport against qalifier Anke Huber and fourth-seeded Venus Williams against Sandrine Testud, who defeated No. 6 Aranxta Sanchez-Vicario 6-2, 7-5 in the night match.

Testud, a Frenchwoman ranked 14th, won 11 of the last 12 points, including breaking Sanchez-Vicario at love in the 11th game. Testud is in the quarterfinals for the second straight week, having lost to Coetzer last week at Stanford.

Sanchez-Vicario converted just one of 11 break points in the 1 1/2-hour match.

Van Roost, a Belgian ranked 15th in the world, pressed Hingis throughout the second set. In the fifth game, she had three chances to win before netting a forehand after the fourth deuce to set up a break point for Hingis. Van Roost then hit a smash long to trail 3-2.

Van Roost held serve after two deuces to trail 5-4, but Hingis won on the second match point when Van Roost's forehand service return went wide.

Hingis, the world's No. 2 player, is in her first tournament since being knocked out in the first round of Wimbledon a month ago. Coetzer is the only seeded player left in Hingis' half of the draw after fifth-seeded Mary Pierce lost in the first round and No. 3 seed Steffi Graf retired with an injury from a second-round match.

The crowd at the La Costa Resort and Spa backed Van Roost, and booed when line calls went against her in the second set. One fan yelled, "Go home, Martina."

In a second-round match, Huber outlasted Barbara Schett of Austria 5-7, 6-4, 6-4. Huber got into the main draw through qualifying, the first time she had to do so since 1990.

Huber, ranked fourth in the world in 1996, is now 29th. She surprised eighth-seeded Nathalie Tauziat 6-3, 6-1 in the first round. In 13 tournaments this year, Huber hasn't advanced past the quarterfinals.

Both players were clearly frustrated throughout the two-hour battle. Huber was warned for racket abuse after tossing it into her chair, while Schett was warned for ball abuse after sending one flying into the crowd at one end of the stadium.

 

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