Schuettler Attempting to Turn Season Around at ATP BeijingPosted on September 14, 2004  Only three main draw matches at Beijing Monday with winners Jarkko Nieminen (d. Garcia-Lopez), No. 4 seed Rainer "Shine" Schuettler (d. Baccanello), and Taipei's Yen-Hsun Lu (d. (WC)Zhu). "I played some good serve in the first set and managed to step it up at 4-4 to break his serve. I'm happy to play here and the center court is nice and I enjoyed my win in first match here," said Schuettler, who has found it difficult to follow-up his 2003 campaign when he qualified for the year-end Masters Cup. "It's hard to improve the ranking continuously. This is my second best year although it's not as good as last year. I'm the only player to maintain the trend of rise in nine years." The final round of qualifying was also finished, with four scrappers into the main draw in Luczak (AUS), Parmar (GBR), Healey, and Tsonga (FRA). On court Tuesday is the full boat in (7) Dent vs. (Q) Luczak, (5) Marat "The Tank" Safin vs. Bogomolov Jr., Lisnard vs. (6) Paradorn "The Thai Fighter" Srichaphan, (1) Moya vs. (Q) Tsonga, Gimelstob vs. (2) Ferrero, Youzhny vs. Ivo "I Dated Hingis" Heuberger, (Q) Healey vs. Sanguinetti, Pless vs. (3) Nalbandian, (WC)Wang Jr. vs. (8) Dominik "The Dominator" Hrbaty, Glenn "I.C." Weiner vs. H.-T. Lee, (Q) Parmar vs. Okun, Burgsmuller vs. K.Kim, and (LL) P.Amritraj vs. (WC) H.Lu. |
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