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Paradorn, Schuttler progress

AFP, Vienna
Paradorn Srichaphan's bid to regain a place in the world's top 20 took a step forward when he survived a potentially difficult first round
against former French Open champion Albert Costa in the 682,750-
euro ATP event here on Wednesday.
The fifth seeded Thai player overcame the fluent Spaniard 6-4, 6-4, chiselling out one break of serve in each set, and earning himself the opportunity for significant progress in a quarter in which the other seed, Juan Ignacio Chela of Argentina has already been beaten.
"It's always difficult to play the
first match," said Paradorn.
"It's a new tournament, with new balls, and a view which is different from last week. It's also kind of slower and the ball bounces low, but I think I dealt with it."
But it might have been very different. Paradorn found himself
break point down at 30-40 as early as the third game, a problem from which he escaped with an adventurous but second delivery which landed plumb on the service line.
He also had to save a break point in the second game of the second set, when he was able to apply enough ground-stroking pressure to force Costa into a forehand drive which found the net.
Had either of those two points fallen differently, Costa might have found the slightly slow indoor hard court suited to his rhythmic groundstrokes and become a more dangerous force.
But although Paradorn never summoned the form which helped him to take a set from world number one Roger Federer in the semifinal of the Thailand Open in Bangkok three weeks ago, he played the bigger points well enough.
He produced such a solid backhand block return of serve at love-15 in the seventh game and combined it with such a fierce forehand cross court drive to reach love-30 that Costa was forced into over-pressing to try to rescue his service game.
As he did so he lost his temper, creating an opening with a short angle only to miss it with an over-hit with a forehand down the line, and uttering some profanities which got him a warning from the umpire.
Next point Costa drove an ambitious forehand into the net from wide on the backhand side to lose his service game, stalked disgustedly back to his place, and let go of his racket as though it were a paper bag descending into a waste bin.
Paradorn looked more confident after that. He had to save a break back point when serving for the first set, but he had Costa in trouble at 11 and 3-3 in the second before breaking again at 4-4 when the umpire over-ruled a line judge to call a Costa forehand out.
The Thai then closed out the match without fuss, gaining his 42nd win of the year and increasing his chances of finishing with 50 wins for the second consecutive season.
He next plays Robbie Ginepri, the promising 22-year-old top 30 American. Despite being in the middle of a marathon eight-week spell of competition, Paradorn believes he can win again.
"If I do well, that will help Asian players to think they can doit," he said.
"I saw a lot of good juniors when I was in China recently, especially among the girls. Hopefully there will be another good men's and women's player from Asia soon."