Dubai, Mar 05: Seventh seed Paradorn Srichapan, suffering fron a slight ankle injury, made too many unforced errors in the final stages of his match against Ljubicic after dragging himself back from the brink of defeat in the second set. The Thai joins five other seeded players, out of a total of eight, already knocked out of the competition.
Neither player faced a break point in the opening set which Ljubicic sneaked 8-6 in the tiebreak when Paradorn put a backhand wide.

Bureau Report