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Few mistakes Hingis advances to Pan Pacific quarters
Posted: Wednesday February 02, 2000 09:37 AM
TOKYO (AP) -- Top-seeded Martina Hingis ousted Lisa Raymond 6-3, 7-5 Wednesday to advance to the quarterfinals in the Pan Pacific Open women's tennis. Hingis, the defending champion, is the highest-ranked player in the tournament, at No. 2. Top-ranked Lindsay Davenport of the United States is out with an injured left hamstring. Raymond, ranked 27th, led 5-4 in the second set before Hingis came back and won three straight games to close out the match. "I started off very well and was focused. I didn't make many mistakes and I knew the way she plays," said Hingis, adding that she lost a little bit of concentration midway through the second set. "But I'm happy I made it through two sets." In the other second-round match of the day, third-seeded Nathalie Tauziat of France beat Zimbabwe's Cara Black 6-3, 6-3. The other two seeds who received first-round byes -- Mary Pierce of France and South Africa's Amanda Coetzer -- were set to play their opening matches Thursday. In first-round action, eighth-seeded Ai Sugiyama of Japan was eliminated by Slovenia's Katarina Srebotnik 6-3, 6-3. Srebotnik, ranked 65th, raced to a 3-0 lead in the opening set as Sugiyama struggled to find her rhythm and range. "I think she was a little nervous because she's playing in Japan, while I really played well without too many unforced errors," Srebotnik said. Srebotnik, 18, had a tremendous breakthrough last year, winning her first singles title, two doubles titles, a Grand Slam mixed doubles title and playing in her first Grand Slam singles events in the French Open.
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