HAMBURG, May 16: Top seed Lleyton Hewitt joined Gustavo Kuerten in the quarterfinals of the Hamburg Masters on Thursday after beating Jiri Novak 6-4 6-3 in a bad-tempered Centre Court clash.
But 13th-seeded American Andy Roddick’s campaign ground to a halt when he was stopped by France’s Julien Boutter 6-3 7-5.
Marat Safin fared well, doing just enough to edge past Juan Ignacio Chela 7-6 7-5 while Roger Federer beat Tim Henman’s conqueror Adrian Voinea 7-5 6-4.
Results: (prefix number denotes seeding):
Third round: Tommy Robredo (Spain) beat 7-Tommy Haas (Germany) 6-4 6-4; 6-Marat Safin (Russia) beat Juan Ignacio Chela (Argentina) 7-6 (8-6) 7-5; Julien Boutter (France) beat 13-Andy Roddick (U.S.) 6-3 7-5; 1-Lleyton Hewitt (Australia) beat 14-Jiri Novak (Czech Republic) 6-4 6-3; 11-Roger Federer (Switzerland) beat Adrian Voinea (Romania) 7-5 6-4; Max Mirnyi (Belarus) beat Mariano Zabaleta (Argentina) 6-3 2-6 6-4; 2-Gustavo Kuerten (Brazil) beat 15-Guillermo Canas (Argentina) 7-5 6-2
Wednesday’s remaining results:
Second round: Boutter beat Alex Corretja (Spain) 5-7, 7-5, 6-2; Safin beat Alberto Martin (Spain) 6-4, 6-2; Chela beat David Sanchez (Spain) 6-3, 1-6, 6-2; Roddick beat Rainer Schuettler (Germany) 6-4, 6-4; 7-Tommy Haas (Germany) beat Sjeng Schalken (Netherlands) 7-5, 6-3.
ROME: Kim Clijsters earned a place in the Italian Open quarter-finals the hard way after she was pushed to three sets by Russia’s Tatiana Panova.
The number three seed eventually won 6-3 6-7 6-1 despite being frustrated in the second set tiebreak.
The Belgian was two points away from winning the match in straight sets when a suspect line call went against her at 5-5 in the tiebreak.
Results:
Third round: 8-Sandrine Testud (France) beat 9-Silvia Farina Elia (Italy) 3-6 6-2 6-3; 7-Amelie Mauresmo (France) beat Ai Sugiyama (Japan) 6-0 6-2; 3-Kim Clijsters (Belgium) beat 16-Tatiana Panova (Russia) 6-3 6-7 (6-8) 6-1; Virginia Ruano Pascual (Spain) beat Anna Kournikova (Russia) 6-3 6-2; 4-Serena Williams (U.S.) beat Denisa Chladkova (Czech Republic) 6-1 6-2; 5-Justine Henin (Belgium) beat Anne Kremer (Luxembourg) 6-2 6-4
Wednesday’s remaining results:
Second round: Farina Elia beat Barbara Schett (Austria) 6-2, 6-4; Pascual (Spain) beat 14-Iroda Tulyaganova (Uzbekistan) 6-2, 3-6, 7-6 (7-2); Kremer beat Asa Svensson (Sweden) 6-1, 6-0; Anastasia Msykina (Russia) beat Magui Serna (Spain) 6-2, 6-7 (7-4), 6-2; Chladkova beat Conchita Martinez (Spain) 6-4, 3-6, 7-5; Henin beat Francesca Shiavone (Italy) 7-6 (7-5), 6-2.—Reuters/AFP