Three seeds fall in Volvo tennis
Three seeds fall in Volvo tennis
BANGKOK (Agencies): Three seeded players fell in first round
matches Tuesday in the US$100,000 Volvo Women's Open Tennis
Championships in the seaside resort city of Pattaya, 80 miles
southeast of Bangkok.
Third seed Yayuk Basuki of Indonesia was defeated by Arendt
Nicole of the United States 2-6, 6-3, 6-2, while seventh seed
Marianne Werdel of the United States was beaten by Thailand's
Tamarine Tanasugarn 1-6, 7-5, 7-5 and No. 8 seed Sandrine of
France was defeated at the hands of Belgian Sandra Wasserman 7-
6(7-3), 6-7(5-7), 6-4.
Top seed Sabine Appellmans of Belgium beat Michelle Jaggard-
Lai of Australia 6-3, 6-2, while second seed American Patty
Pendick defeated South Korean Jeon Mi-ra 6-2, 6-2 and fourth seed
Florence Labat of Argentina defeated Andrea Strnadova of Czech
Republic 1-6, 6-4, 6-4.
Indonesia's other hope Romana Tedjakusuma was defeated by
fifth seed Meredith Mcgrath of the U.S.4-6, 7-6, 3-6
Salem Open
In Hong Kong, persistent rain denied a patient crowd the
chance of seeing local idol and top seed Michael Chang in the
$320,000 Salem Open Tuesday.
Chang was scheduled to take on America's David Wheaton in the
first match of the evening session.
Rain had earlier interrupted second seed Ivan Lendl's first
round match against Canadian-Chinese Albert Chang.
Lendl led 5-3 with a service break when rain stopped play.
Despite repeated attempts to dry the court over three hours,
Lendl's match was eventually postponed until Wednesday.
Organizers then tried to satisfy the spectators by scheduling
Chang's match against Wheaton to replace Lendl and Albert Chang
but persistent drizzle again frustrated their plans.
A trio of Australians managed to advance to the second round
before Lendl's match was cut short.
Sydney-born Jamie Morgan was in impressive form as he
demolished Italian qualifier Gianluca Pozzi 6-3, 6-4 on an
outside court.
Courier advances
In Nice, former world number one Jim Courier made up for last
week's shock first round elimination at the Spanish Open by
crushing Russian Yevgueny Kafelnikov in straight sets in his
opening match at the Nice Open on Tuesday.
The American, who fell to Spaniard Alex Corretja last Tuesday
in Barcelona, cruised to a comfortable 6-3 6-2 victory over
unseeded Kafelnikov.
"It was not as easy at it seems but I didn't expect to play so
well," said second seed Courier, warming up for next month's
French Open. "I still enjoy playing on clay and I don't want to
make any plans but I will be hard to beat."
Despite a slow start, top seed Stefan Edberg of Sweden also
made it through to the second round by beating Italian Davide
Sanguinetti 4-6 6-2 6-4.
Back in action after an ankle injury, France's top player
Cedric Pioline, the fourth seed, delighted his home fans by
moving past Australian Mark Woodforde 6-4 7-5.