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'A close match' Williams beats Stevenson at Indian Wells
Posted: Sunday March 12, 2000 01:11 AM
INDIAN WELLS, Calif. (AP) -- Defending champion Serena Williams beat Alexandra Stevenson 7-5, 3-6, 6-2 on Saturday in the second round of the Tennis Master Series. Top-seeded Martina Hingis and No. 2 Lindsay Davenport also won second-round matches at the new Indian Wells Tennis Garden. Hingis beat Amy Frazier 6-3, 6-3, and Davenport routed Romania's Irina Spirlea 6-0, 6-1. Williams, the U.S. Open champion who is seeded third in the $2 million tournament, needed almost two hours to beat Stevenson, who had 13 aces -- including two that were clocked at 113 mph and 109 mph. Williams had only two aces. "I've never seen her play that well," Williams said. "Her serve was on. It was a close match." Fourth-seeded Nathalie Tauziat of France also advanced along with fifth-seeded Mary Pierce of France, sixth-seeded Conchita Martinez of Spain, and eighth-seeded Anna Kournikova of Russia. Tauziat beat France's Anne-Gaelle Sidot 6-2, 6-4; Pierce routed Canada's Sonya Jeyaseelan 6-1, 6-3; Martinez beat Bulgaria's Magdalena Maleeva 6-3, 6-3; and Kournikova edged Denisa Chladkova of the Czech Republic 7-5, 6-2; In other matches, Zimbabwe's Cara Black beat 12th-seeded Jennifer Capriati 5-7, 6-1, 6-2; and Belgium's Kim Clijster advanced when 13th-seeded Amelie Mauresmo retired because of a lower back strain. Clijster led 3-0 in the first set when Mauresmo retired.
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