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 INDIAN WELLS, California (Reuter) - Fifteenth seed Chanda
Rubin outlasted fellow American Amy Frazier 6-3 4-6 7-6 (8-6) in
a marathon first-round match Friday at the $1.25 million State
Farm Evert Cup.
 All five seeds in action on the opening day -- Rubin, 16th
seed Lisa Raymond, 12th-seeded Elena Likhovtseva of Russia,
13th-seeded Nathalie Tauziat of France and 14th-seeded Ruxandra
Dragomir of Romania -- won their matches.
 The top eight seeds all received first-round byes. Spaniards
Arantxa Sanchez Vicario and Conchita Martinez are the unexpected
top two seeds, injuries having forced Steffi Graf, Monica Seles
and Mary Pierce to withdraw.
 Two youngsters who have received international attention --
15-year-old Russian Anna Kournikova and 16-year-old American
Venus Williams -- were also in action Friday.
 The 89th-ranked Kournikova defeated 60th-ranked tour veteran
Patricia Hy-Boulais of Canada 1-6 6-1 6-4.
 A qualifier into the main draw, the 211th-ranked Williams
posted an easy 6-2 6-4 win over 48th-ranked Anne Miller.
 The two hour, 32 minute match between the 25th-ranked Rubin
and 31st-ranked Frazier saw both players have difficulty
asserting themselves through three sets as tedious to play as to
observe.
 Of the 255 points played, more than half were ended by
unforced errors. Rubin posted 70 unforced errors while Frazier
was only slightly better with 67.
 Rubin scored only 26 overall winners and Frazier just 22.
 ``It definitely wasn't my best match,'' said Rubin, who won
her first career title earlier this year in Linz, Austria.
 ``I felt a little bit more pressure from her than against
someone who doesn't hit the ball so hard. I should've taken some
pace off the ball. It should've been a much easier match then I
made it.''
 Break point opportunities were plentiful. Rubin won 11 of 22
service break chances, while Frazier took advantage of 10 of 23.
 ``For the most part, my serve was not good, especially at
the end of the second and for all of the third set,'' said
Rubin, who sat out most of 1996 with a wrist injury. ``I lost
most of my service games.''
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