Tuesday, September 06, 2005

Open-Paradorn storms past sixth seed Davydenko

NEW YORK, Sept 2 (Reuters) -

Unseeded Thai Paradorn Srichaphan upset sixth seed Nikolay Davydenko 6-4 7-5 6-3 on Friday to advance to the third round of the U.S. Open.
The 26-year-old Paradorn, ranked 51, ripped 45 winners in his victory over the Russian, who had reached the semi-finals at the French Open and the last eight at the Australian Open.
The Thai will next face Italian David Sanguinetti, who also vanquished a seeded player in number 31 Carlos Moya, the 1998 French Open champion.
Sanguinetti beat Moya 3-6 6-1 6-2 6-4.

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World's No.5 Nikolay Davydenko to miss China Open due to injury

World's No.5 Nikolay Davydenko to miss China Open due to injury
www.chinaview.cn 2005-09-06 16:23:38

BEIJING, Sept. 6 (Xinhuanet) -- Russian's No.1 tennis player Nikolay Davydenko, ranked 5th in ATP rankings, withdrew from China Open due to injury, it was announced by the organizing committee here on Tuesday. The committee said it's sorry that after the withdrawal of defending champion Safin, another top tennis player from Russia was not able to come to play in China Open. Davydenko has been eliminated by Srichaphan in the 5th round of U.S. Open. According to the committee, Belgian Dick Norman will take the place in the tournament.