STANFORD, California – Fifth-seeded Yanina Wickmayer of Belgium beat Chang Kai-chen of Taiwan 7-5, 2-6, 7-5 in the first-round of the Bank of the West Classic Monday. Also, sixth-seeded Chanelle Scheepers beat qualifier Grace Min 6-4, 6-4, and Michelle Larcher De Brito defeated Australia's Jarmila Gajdosova 5-7, 6-2, 6-3. Britain's Heather Watson stopped American Sloane Stephens, 7-6(5), 4-6, 6-1.
Rosol beats Haase Big-serving Lukas Rosol beat fifth-seeded Robin Haase of the Netherlands 6-4, 7-5 Tuesday to advance to the second round of the Mercedes Cup in Stuttgart. Tommy Haas, the eighth-seeded Germany, rallied to beat Igor Andreev of Russia 4-6, 6-2, 6-2 and countryman Cedrik-Marcel Stebe upset seventh-seeded Lubosz Kubot of Poland 6-2, 0-6, 6-3. Kubot served 10 double-faults. Also moving into the second round were Bjorn Phau of Germany, Thomaz Bellucci of Brazil, Benoit Paire of France, Tobias Kamke of Germany, Pavol Cervenak of Slovakia and Jeremy Chardy of France. Dustin Brown of Germany saved a match point to upset sixth-seeded Nikolay Davydenko of Russia 7-5, 3-6, 7-6 (7). Guillermo Garcia-Lopez swept past fellow Spaniard Ruben Ramirez Hidalgo 6-2, 6-3.
Young ousted In Newport, US seventh seed Donald Young crashed out in the first round of the ATP Hall of Fame Championships Monday while American sixth seed Ryan Harrison barely avoided an early ouster as well. American Michael Russell rallied to eliminate Young 1-6, 6-1, 6-4 in an opening-round match at the $398,250 grass-court event. Harrison battled for two hours and 48 minutes before escaping Belgian Ruben Bemelmans 7-6 (10/8), 6-7 (5/7), 7-5. France's Nicholas Mahut outlasted Swiss Marco Chiudinelli 6-0, 7-6 (7/2). Belgium's Olivier Rochus outlasted Japan's Go Soeda 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 and could face another Japanese player, second seed Kei Nishikori, in the second round. Israel's Dudi Sela defeated Canada's Frank Dancevic 6-0, 6-2 and American Jack Sock beat Russian Igor Kunitsyn 7-5, 1-6, 6-4 in other opening matches.
Volandri advances Fifth-seeded Michail Kukushkin of Kazhakhstan was upset in the first round of the Swedish Open in Bastad Tuesday, while No. 7 Fillipo Volandri of Italy easily advanced in straight sets. Kukushkin lost 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 to Spain's Daniel Gimeno-Traver, while Volandri beat Swedish wild card Michael Ryderstedt 6-4, 6-2. Frederico Gil of Portugal also advanced on the clay courts at Bastad Tennis Stadium by outlasting Turkey's Marsel Ilhan 6-4, 1-6, 6-3, while Joao Souza of Brazil beat Argentina's Horacio Zeballos 6-4, 6-2. In other results, Czech player Ivo Minar ousted Spain's Roberto Bautista-Agut 7-5, 7-6 (4) and Kazhakhstan's Evgeny Korolev beat Thiago Alves of Brazil 6-0, 6-3. Two-time champion Tommy Robredo of Spain defeated eighth-seeded Adrian Ungur of Romania 6-4, 6-2 Monday.
Pavic upsets Ferrero Croatian wild card Mate Pavic upset sixth-seeded Juan Carlos Ferrero in the first round of the Croatia Open in Umag Tuesday, beating the former champion 6-2, 6-2. Earlier Tuesday, Starace beat Slovak qualifier Ivo Klec 6-3, 7-6 (6) to advance to the second round. In another upset, American Wayne Odesnik beat eighth-seeded Edouard Roger-Vasselin of France 6-7 (4), 6-2, 7-5. Fabio Fognini of Italy, Blaz Kavcic of Slovenia and Marco Trungelliti of Argentina also advanced. — Agencies
