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Top guns mark mixed day
ROME, May 13: South Africa’s Wayne Ferriera, a semifinalist for the past two years, made a quick exit from the Italian Open on Monday. squandering five match points on his way to a first-round defeat by Swede Magnus Larsson, reports Reuter.
The ninth seed angrily threw his racket at a chair after failing to keep his nerve at the vital stages of a 4-6, 7-5, 7-6 upset on the Granstand Court.
The Granstand proved something of a graveyard for seeds on Monday as Australia’s Mark Philippoussls lost in straight sets to Morocco's Karim Alami, ranked 68 in the world.
The big-serving number 16 seed, a suiprlse winner on clay at Munich last month, was humiliated 6-2, 6-0.
Ferreira wasted four match points at 5-3 on Larsson's serve in the second set and one more when serving for the match at 5-4 before allowing his opponent to level at one set apiece.
The South African looked to have regained control as he broke Larsson in the opening game of the final set and took a 3-1 lead but the big Swede broke back up push the match Into a decisive tiebreak.
With Ferreira swiping at the clay in frustration and continually berating himself, Larsson raced into a 5-0 lead before the
number nine staged a brief rally.
But it was too late as a calm Larsson closed out the match on his second match point with a delicate dropshot from the back of the court
Defeat represented another sorry chapter in a wretched clay . court season for Ferreira who has just one victory to his name in five tournaments.
* For Larsson, number 41 in the world after fighting back from injury, it was nis third big victory on clay this season.
Last month he fought back from a set down to defeat French Open champion Yevgeny Kafelnikov in Barcelona and world number one Pete Sampras in Monte Carlo.
There were no problems for defending champion Thomas Muster and last year's runner-up Richard Krajicek, both of whom swaggered back into town to shoot down a couple of the Foro Italico's local heroes.
Number three seed Muster, the Austrian strongman with the piercing gaze, toyed with wild card Marzio Martelli before killing him off 6-3. 6-2.
Wimbledon champion Krajicek, his eyes reddened by a heavy cold, was made it fight in the first set by Italian Davis Cup doubles specialist Diego Nargiso before firing down a series of unstoppable first serves to win 7-5. 6-3.
Muster, after notching up his 500th career clay-court win. did not once mention Martelli in a post-match news conference devoted almost entirely to his new-found prowess on hard-court and recent failures on his one-time favourite surface clay.
"You cannot expect me to win every clay-court tournament like I did two years ago." said the Austrian, who has won more clay-court matches and titles than any other tour player.
In three tournaments on clay this year. Muster has not progressed beyond the round of 16 — a marked contrast with his victories at the Lipton and Dubai on hardcourts.
The Italian Open, a favourite venue where he has won for the past two years and three times in total, offers him the chance to reassert himself on clay.
By contrast. Krajicek, a hardcourt specialist, still has to prove himself on clay and admitted that winning the French Open in Paris in two weeks' time was his number one goal of 1997.
"It would be nice to win two Wimbledons but maybe it would be nicer to win Paris and show people that I am a good player on clay." said the number five seed.
Krajicek's self-belief on clay took a severe pounding in Hamburg last week where he was humiliated 6-1, 6-1 by Ukrainian Andrei Medvedev.
Spain's Carlos Moya, a surprise finalist at the Australian Open in January and seeded eighth here, beat Italy’s Stefano Pescosolido 6-4. 6-4. Another seed advanced when No 15 Marc Rosset of Switzerland got past French qualifier Jerome Gol-mard 7-5, 6-4.
Unseeded American Chris Woodruff won his first-round match, beating Germany's - David Prinosil 6-3, 6-2, while Britain’s Greg Rusedski bowed out with a 7-6, 7-6 loss to Spanish qualifier Alberto Portas.