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Po’s gritty escape act
TOKYO. Sept 18: Second seed Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario quickly ended the upset uprising by Shinobu Asagoe. advancing to the Toyota Princess Cup quarterfinals with a 6-0. 6-0 victory over the Japanese qualifier Thursday, reports AP.
Asagoe. ranked 259th in the world, had ousted error-plagued American Chanda Rubin in the
P had to struggle. Overcoming a 2-5 second-set deficit with heavier hitting, the American beat Japan's Rika Hiraki 3-6. 7-6 (8-6). 6-3.
No. 3 Conchita Martinez of Spain ousted Taiwan’s Wang Sni-tlng 6-1, 6-3 in slightly more than an hour, chasing her around with a mix of slice and topsin. and lobbing or passing out of trouble when she needed to. Martinez said the back muscle strain that forced her out of
first round on Wednesday. On Thursday, as her Spanish opponent made no mistakes, she impatiently slugged the ball long and wide, and admitted later to being a bit embarrassed by the splashy local press coverage of her previous day's triumph.
Among the seeds in action Thursday, only No. 4 Kimberly
the US Open troubled her only slightly, although she was able to practice only a little for this tournament.
No. 8 Natasha Zvereva of Balarus also used an assortment of shots, including a deadly lob. to keep Japan's Ai Sugiyama off balance in a 6-2. 6-3 victory.
Sanchez, a former No. 1 who
has slipped to 10th in the rankings, rated her own performance as "one of the most perfect matches, from beginning to end. I have played in a long time."
Asagoe, asked about her strategy, replied: "I realised that speed — speedy movement and speedy shots — is not all that matters, ft was good experience to have a chance to respond to so many kinds of balls.
"Before 1 could start my strategy, the game was over," said Asagoe. who started a break from school in February to try the pro tour.
"I expected it to be all aces against me. Even though I wasn't able to get a game. I got some points and good experience, and I want to keep going."
Against Po. Hiraki, a mixed doubles winner in this year’s French Open, was hitting hard and deep, and led 3-0, 4-1 and 5-2 in the second set before the American turned the match around.
Po scored her key break for 5-5 by pressuring Hiraki Into a series of errors, and gained a 6-3 lead in the tiebreaker in the same manner Hr iki fought back to 6-6 with tv, spectacular winners and a miss by Po, but then was forced into two more errors.
Hiraki also took a 3-1 lead in the final set. but didn't win another game.
"I was thinking that I wasn't playing very well for the crowd. They always have been very supportive of me here," said Po. whose ancestry is part Japanese. "1 was trying to play better for everyone watching.
"I just tried to be a little more aggressive and put some more pace on the ball so she couldn't do whatever she wanted." added Po. who is 18th in the WTA rankings compared to Hiraki's 96th.
Rain interrupted the match for about an hour almost at the start, as it did for Chinas Li Fang and Venezuela's Maria-Alejandra Vento on an outside court. Li came back to win 7-5, 6-2.
After those two matches, heavy rain from an advancing typhoon forced the organisers to close the roof on the Ariake Colosseum.