Date:14/08/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/08/14/stories/2008081453172100.htm

Sport - Tennis

Del Potro advances

WASHINGTON: Juan Martin del Potro extended his winning streak to 15 matches with a 6-2, 6-3 win over American Jesse Levine in the first round of the ATP Legg Mason Classic on Tuesday.

Top-seeded Andy Roddick also won in straight sets, eliminating Paraguay’s Ramon Delgado, 6-3, 7-6(4).

The results (first round):

At Washington DC (Legg Mason Classic): Andy Roddick bt Ramon Delgado 6-3, 7-6(4); Juan-Martin del Potro bt Jesse Levine 6-2, 6-3.

Robby Kendrick bt Feliciano Lopez 6-3, 7-5; Alejandro Falla bt Mardy Fish 5-7, 6-4, 6-2; Fabio Fognini bt Marat Safin 7-5 retired.; Viktor Troicki bt Denis Gremelmayr 6-4, 6-2; Igor Kunitsyn bt Mischa Zverev 6-7(6), 6-4, 6-2; Edouardo Schwank bt Sebastien Grosjean 6-3, 4-6, 6-3.At Cincinnati (Western & Southern Financial Group Women’s Open): Jamea Jackson bt Marion Bartoli 7-6(5), 2-2 retired.; Nadia Petrova bt Galina Voskoboeva 6-3, 6-0; Amélie Mauresmo bt Stéphanie Cohen-Aloro 6-7(5), 7-6(6), 6-1.

Aleksandra Wozniak bt Aiko Nakamura 6-3, 6-2; Yanina Wickmayer bt Vasilisa Bardina 7-5, 3-6, 6-3; Julia Vakulenko bt Monica Niculescu 6-2, 2-6, 6-4; Vania King bt Tathiana Garbin 4-6, 6-3, 7-5. — Agencies