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Davenport breezes

AFP, Tokyo
Lindsay Davenport opened her defence of the Pan Pacific Open tennis tournament title Wednesday
with an easy win over Maria Vento-Kabchi, saying afterwards she felt "more confident than last year".
The American second seed, who received a first-round bye, was never in danger of losing to the Venezuelan in a second round game, trumping her 6-2, 6-1 to
become the first player to reach the quarter-finals.
"I feel just a lot more confident right now than I was last year, but I still have a couple of more steps to take before I really feel, like, great, like, positive and confident," she said.
"But I feel physically I'm doing well, feel mentally this is the end of the five-week trip, so I just want to stay calm, stay positive out there and I know I can play well here."
She added: "At the end of the year I had surgery for the foot that was bothering me pretty much since April and I really felt a lot of this kind of
pressure go off my shoulders when I had the surgery."
The 27-year-old three-time champion here had surgery for a nagging left foot injury in October and missed the remainder of the season before returning to action in a pre-Australian Open tournament in Sydney last month.
However she withdrew from her semi-final in Sydney with a strained right shoulder, and then crashed out of the quarterfinals at Melbourne, both against eventual champion and current world number one Justine Henin-Hardenne of Belgium.
But Davenport said she "had a great start to the year" and shrugged off anyidea that she would retire soon.
"I still like to play. Certainly last year I thought about it (retirement) enough and a lot, and just said I wasn't quite ready to give up yet," said Davenport, looking forward to retaining the only title she won last season.
She added though: "I really don't want to be like a perennial quarterfinalist for the rest of my career.
"I haven't had those big wins in a Grand Slam situation, I've stopped winning as many titles as I used to..."
In the quarter-finals Friday, Davenport will take on eighth seed Daniela Hantuchova of Slovakia, who won a battle of two tennis pin-ups against Maria Sharapova of Russia 76, 6-1.
In the first round, seventh seed Jelena Dokic of Serbia and Montenegro needed three sets to adjust her shots in her season-opener before beating Cara Black of Zimbabwe 3-6, 7-6, 6-1.
Qualifier Janette Husarova of Slovakia earned a place against Dokic when she shocked Thai ace Tamarine Tanasugarn with 7-6, 6-3 win.