Seeds Fail to Plant Tuesday at ATP Tokyo
Posted on October 5, 2005
All three seeds were uprooted Tuesday at the ATP stop in Tokyo, with upsets orchestrated by German Bjorn Phau (d. (8) Spadea), Cyprus riser Marcos Baghdatis (d. (14) Minar), and American Kevin Kim (d. (15) Vik), all in straight sets.
Unseeded first-round winners Tuesday were Dutch qualifier Raemon Sluiter (d. Burgsmuller), Germans Alexander Popp (d (WC) Motomura), Alexander Waske (d. Gimelstob 7-6 in the third) and Rainer Schuettler (d. (Q) Soeda in three), Japanese wildcard Takahiro Terachi (d. Kohlschreiber), Aussie Wayne Arthurs (d. (WC) Suzuki 7-6 in the third), South African Weslie Moodie (d. Y.Wang), and Czech Jiri Vanek (d. Dlouhy in two tiebreaks).
Scheduled for Wednesday in Tokyo are (1) Puerta vs. (Q) Taino, (3) Ginepri vs. Popp, (WC) Terachi vs. (9) Srichaphan, (10) Carlsen vs. N.Lapentti, (Q) Gambill vs. (5) Ancic, (16) Monaco vs. Arthurs, Tursunov vs. (4) Dent, (12) Saulnier vs. (Q) Sluiter, Vanek vs. (2) Stepanek in an all-Czech, (7) Nieminen vs. Schuettler, Karanusic vs. (11) Horna, (6) Youzhny vs. Moodie, and Waske vs. (13) Muller.
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