VIENNA, Oct. 9 (UPI) -- Fourth-seeded Roger Federer saved three match points Tuesday before overcoming Massu, 4-6, 7-6 (10-8), 6-4 at the CA Tennis Trophy.
Meanwhile, Carlos Moya may have thought he ended his jinx against Thomas Enqvist earlier this year, but the curse reared its head again. Moya, the eighth seed, failed to hold an early lead, getting edged out by Enqvist, 2-6, 6-3, 7-6 (7-3).
Federer, who dethroned American Pete Sampras in the fourth round at Wimbledon for the biggest victory of his young career, needed two hours, 42 minutes to avoid first-round elimination. The 20-year-old Swiss player suffered that fate at last week's Kremlin Cup, where he lost his first match to eventual finalist Nicolas Kiefer of Germany.
Massu was a late addition to the field, replacing American Jan-Michael Gambill, who withdrew with a shoulder injury. But the Chilean still gave the world's 10th-ranked player all he could handle in their first career meeting, which concluded just before 1:00 a.m. local time.
Federer faces a second-round encounter with Spaniard Albert Costa, who outlasted Austrian wild-card entrant Markus Hipfl, 6-3, 3-6, 6-4.
Moya lost to Enqvist for the fifth time in six career meetings.
Moya finally broke through in his home country on his way to the final of the Open Seat Godo claycourt event at Barcelona, Spain in April.
But Enqvist, who sits 16 places behind Moya in the ATP Champions Race in 36th, has taken both of their indoor encounters. Enqvist also won their match at the 1996 Paris Indoor tournament.
Enqvist faces another Spaniard in Alberto Martin in the second round.
Spain's Tommy Robrero worked out a 7-6 (7-4), 1-6, 6-2 victory over Chilean Marcelo Rios, who captured the Salem Open title at Hong Kong just two weeks ago.
The 19-year-old, who advanced to the fourth round of the U.S. Open last month, is rewarded with a second-round meeting against top seed Yevgeny Kafelnikov. The Russian won last week's Kremlin Cup at Moscow to become only the third men's tennis player in the Open era (1968) to win the same event five years in a row.
In other action, Romanian qualifier Adrian Voinea was leading Julian Knowle, 4-6, 6-3, 3-1, when the Austrian wild card entrant was forced to retire due to an injured right calf.
In the second round, Voinea will meet Sweden's Andreas Vinciguerra, who upset No. 3 Alex Corretja of Spain on Monday.
