Asia's top tennis male player Paradorn Srichaphan suffered an early exit at the China Open ATP tennis tournament as he was beaten in straight sets by eighth-seeded Carlos Moya in Beijing on Monday.

The Thai fired 7 aces to Moya's two but failed to hold his nerve in avoiding unforced errors.

With the opening victory at the China Open ATP tennis tournament, where 35 ATP 2005 Race points and 69,200 US dollars prize money in total are at stake, Moya improved his career record against the top Asian player Srichaphan to 4-0 and his record in 2005 to 28-17.

Firmly holding their servers, both of the players failed to break and the opening set was pulled into tiebreaker.

After exchanging the leads for several times, Srichaphan saved a set point with a placement shot before Moya broke the Thai to hold on 7-6 and served to tiebreak 8-6.

Moya then broke Srichaphan twice to jump out to a 5-3 lead before wrapping up the match with a 6-3 set win.

The eighth seed should have shortened his work of claiming the opener win with breaking first in the second set, but the luck temporarily dumped the Spanish veteran earlier into the game.

Being broken in just the second game of the second set, Srichaphan revenged on the 29-year-old Spaniard though Moya stoke an excellent baseline play in the third game.

Moya, whose rankings in ATP Race has declined from 27 to 33 following a sluggish run in the just finished U.S. Open, will next take the winner between Switzerland's Ivo Heuberger and Stefan Koubek of Austria in Tuesday's another first round matchup.

(Xinhua News Agency September 13, 2005)