Spadea Survives, Haas Pulls at Scottsdale

"All excuses aside, I decided to play," said Spadea, who has spent time this week in the hospital with an i.v. drip to get fluids in his body. "My preparation wasn't ideal, but I still was out there to compete."

The Tennis Channel Open lost its top seed Tuesday when Germany's Tommy Haas withdrew, citing the flu and a bad back.

"I plan to rest up to get over the flu," Haas said. "I'm looking forward to Davis Cup play and being a part of the German team. I need to be healthy so I can play my best."

Haas was replaced in the draw by American lucky loser Paul Goldstein.

Other seeded winners on the day were (3) Mario "Baby Goran" Ancic (d. (WC) Evans in three) and (5) Kevin Kim (d. (Q) Tecau).

"It was tough with the rain delays and I didn't play my best tennis but I am happy to pull this match out," said Ancic, who closed out the match over the American with his eighth ace. "He was confident at the beginning and I had to get used to the conditions since I've been playing indoors the last month. I wanted to shorten the points and come in on second serves and short balls."

Unseeded Aussie Mark Philippoussis recorded his first win since Wimbledon of last year with a three-set victory over German Tomas Behrend.

"I've been hitting the ball well in training, but it's tough to find the rhythm," said Flipper, who was passed over for Davis Cup duty by Australia. "Matches are so different. You get the same balls but you spray them, it's easy to lose confidence. I took an extra two or three weeks to make sure I was ready. I didn't want to rush like I've done in the past."

Other un-seeds into the second round at Scottsdale were Aussie serving machine Wayne Arthurs (d. (4) Dent 7-6 in the third), Americans James Blake (d. last week's Memphis winner (7) Carlsen), the (LL) Goldstein (d. (WC) "The" Donald Young 3-and-1) and Gleen "I.C." Weiner (d. (Q) Frank "You Can" Dancevic), joined by Italy's Dave Sanguinetti (d. (Q) Kohlmann in three) and Serb Janko Tipsarevic (d. Gambill).

Arthurs improved to 3-0 lifetime versus Dent with the upset of the No. 4 seed.

"We're both serve and volleyers and we've had some close matches in the past and I've been fortunate to get through each time," said Arthurs, who dropped 13 aces on the American. "The last time we played at Wimbledon we played four tiebreakers and only a few points here and there is the difference."

On tap for Wednesday in Scottsdale are Jeff "Baby Krajicek" Morrison vs. Christophe "The Roach" Rochus, Arthurs vs. Gimelstob, (6) Irakli "Freak Show" Labadze vs. G.Lapentti, Philippoussis vs. (3) Baby Goran, in doubles (1) Bryan/Bryan vs. Gambill/Gimelstob in an all-American, and Weiner vs. (8) Burgsmuller.