SYDNEY, Jan. 8 (UPI) -- Andy Roddick, the sixth seed, Wednesday lost to Hyung-Taik Lee at the adidas International hardcourt tennis event.
The scores were 7-6 (7-5), 7-5 in their second-round matchup. It was the first time in six career meetings that Lee, a qualifier, has beaten Roddick.
"It was match point, he was playing with the wind, I was playing against it," Roddick said after another day of tough weather conditions. "I took a grip and took full heaves at it. Normally it would have gone out of the stadium, but it actually went in. I made four in a row. I'm not going to beat myself up over the loss. It was unbelievable conditions."
Roddick reached the adidas semifinals last year, but was eliminated in the second round of the Australian Open. A winner of five ATP titles, Roddick is the ninth seed at this year's Australian Open, which begins Monday.
Lee, 27, a native of Seoul, South Korea, avenged his quarterfinals loss to Roddick at last year's event. His best results in 2002 came at Sydney and at the Queen's Club in London, where he also advanced to the final eight.
The top two men's seeds, Marat Safin of Russia and Spain's Juan Carlos Ferrero both advanced, but third-seeded Carlos Moya of Spain also was upset.
Safin, who lost in the finals of last year's Australian Open, rallied past Jarko Nieminen of Finland, 3-6, 6-1, 6-2, and next faces Lee. Ferrero posted a 6-3, 6-2 victory in his first career meeting with Russia's Mikhail Youzhny.
Moya, who lost to Ferrero in the semifinals of the season-ending Tennis Masters Cup in Shanghai, was beaten by qualifier Mardy Fish of the United States, 7-6 (7-4), 4-6, 6-4.
"I'm very relieved to win a match like that," Fish said. "I've been in a position to win matches like that before and I haven't come through. I kept saying to myself that this is the year for me to win these type of matches. I was down a break in the third, and I just wanted to keep holding serve and I knew I'd have a chance to break him."
Rainer Schuettler of Germany also posted an upset, beating No. 8 Gaston Gaudio of Argentina, 7-6 (7-5), 6-0. Seventh-seeded Paradorn Srichaphan, who led the ATP Tour by winning 40 matches on hard courts in 2002, advanced to a quarterfinal meeting with Ferrero by posting a 3-6, 6-4, 6-4 win over Max Mirnyi of Belarus.
"I lost the first set and was down a break, but I just tried to hang in the match, holding onto my serve, having a good time," Srichaphan said. "You have to get used to the weather, get used to the conditions at different tournaments. My body feels OK even though I've played a lot of matches because I've been working hard off the court."
Russia's Nikolay Davydenko, who captured his first career title Sunday in Adelaide, was swept by lucky loser Franco Squillari of Argentina, 6-1, 6-4, and hard-serving Wayne Ferreira of South Africa also moved on with a 6-7 (5-7), 6-4, 6-4 win over Juan Ignacio Chela of Argentina.
On the women's side, Belgium's Kim Clijsters and Justine Henin-Hardenne, the second and third seeds, cruised into the quarterfinals at the New South Wales Tennis Centre.
Clijsters encountered little trouble from Switzerland's Patty Schnyder, moving on with a 6-1, 6-3 triumph. Henin-Hardenne had an even easier time with Slovakia's Janette Husarova, registering a 6-1, 6-0 rout.
No. 6 seed Lindsay Davenport, who played just nine WTA events last year after returning from a knee injury, cruised past countrywoman Lisa Raymond, 6-4, 6-1, and seventh-seeded Chanda Rubin swept past fellow Alexandra Stevenson, 6-1, 6-3, but No. 8 Magdalena Maleeva of Bulgaria was ousted by Amanda Coetzer of South Africa, 6-4, 6-1.
Also, Olga Barabanschikova of Belarus beat Russia's Elena Bovina, 7-6 (7-1), 6-2.
