Indianapolis (Indiana), Aug 15: World no. 1 Lleyton Hewitt of Australia earned revenge for a loss eight months ago, dismissing Spain's Alberto martin 6-3 7-5 to reach the third round of the 800,000-dollar ATP tournament here yesterday. Top seed Hewitt was still smarting from a first-round defeat suffered at the Australian open when he was ill with the chicken pox. Hewitt had just lost to another Spaniard, Carlos Moya, in the final at the Cincinnati Masters on Sunday.
Hard-serving 18-year-old Croatian teen Mario Ancic surprised no. 4 seed Yevgeny Kafelnikov of Russia, 4-6 6-2 6-4, to advance to the third round.
It was the second win over a top-10 player in two months for Ancic, who is drawing comparisons to countryman Goran Ivanisevic. In June, he upset Switzerland's Roger Federer in the first round at Wimbledon.


The 21-year-old Hewitt needs a run of success to build confidence for his defence of the us open title starting August 26.

Hewitt is looking for his fifth trophy of the season after losing his first final after ten title victories in a row.


He will meet one of the game's big hitters, Briton Greg Rusedski later today.

Bureau Report