INDIAN WELLS, MARCH 20: Alex Corretja signaled his re-emergence after a year battling illness with a 6-4, 6-4, 6-3 victory over Thomas Enqvist in the final of new millennium's first tennis masters series event.The unseeded Spaniard, who finished 1999 ranked 26th after rising to third at the end of a stellar 1998, on Sunday took exactly two hours to overcome the 10th-seeded Swede, who looked flat after a long drawn out semi-final victory over 1999 champion Mark Philippoussis on Saturday.Enqvist committed 51 unforced errors, finally giving up the match with a double fault on Corretja's second match point.Corretja, who had to win six matches in seven days to win the $ 2.95 million event, admitted as Enqvist served to save the match, he was hoping for such an error.``I was praying to him to double fault again,'' Corretja said. ``I was like, `Just double fault. Don't make me play again. Please just leave me alone.'''Corretja broke early in each of the first two sets, in the third game of the first and in the first game of second.Enqvist grabbed the early break in the second game of the third, but gave it right back as he netted a backhand volley.``Even when he broke me in the third set, he was not in the match anymore,'' Corretja said. ``He was not mentally focused in the third set. He was serving second serve, like, 115 mph. I knew some doublefaults would come.''.Corretja upset two-time US Open champion Pat Rafter in the second round and battled back from a 0-4 deficit in the first set against Fabrice Santoro in the third.He went into the match prepared for a long one, but when he saved Enqvist's only break point against him in the second set with a superb backhand down the line, he began to sense he could take the Swede in straight sets.Corretja earned the decisive break in the fifth game of the third set. Enqvist saved two break points in that game - despite three doublefaults as he sought to stay out of the tiring rallies - before netting a forehand.Corretja, first Spaniard to win here since Jose Higuerasin 1983, said the victory was special not only because of his struggles last year, but also because it confirmed that he and his compatriots aren't limited to claycourt success.It was Corretja's first victory since he won the ATP Tour world championships at the end of 1998.
