Mercedes Cup | Croatia Open | Energis Open

Mercedes Cup
$500,000 men's tournament
At Stuttgart, Germany
Singles
First round
Jiri Novak (1), Czech Republic, def. Ruben Ramirez Hidalgo, Spain, 3-6, 6-0, 6-2.

Alexander Popp, Germany, def. Jan Hernych, Czech Republic, 6-0, 6-2.

Younes El Aynaoui (4), Morocco, def. David Sanchez, Spain, 1-6, 6-4, 6-4.

Tommy Robredo (8), Spain, def. Bohdan Ulihrach, Czech Republic, 6-4, 6-2.

Johan Settergren, Sweden, leads Francisco Clavet, Spain, 6-2, 2-2, ppd., rain.

Andrea Gaudenzi, Italy, leads Nicolas Lapentti (6), Ecuador, 1-0, ppd., rain.

Alberto Martin, Spain, leads Rainer Schuettler (7), Germany, 2-1, ppd., rain.

Hicham Arazi, Morocco, vs. Mikhail Youzhny, Russia, ppd., rain.

Stefan Koubek, Austria, vs. Gustavo Kuerten (2), Brazil, ppd., rain.

Fernando Meligeni, Brazil, vs. Attila Savolt, Hungary, ppd., rain.

Doubles
First round
Mansour Bahrami, Iran, and Andrei Pavel, Romania, vs. Hicham Arazi, Morocco, and Tommy Robredo, Spain, ppd., rain.

Lars Burgsmuller, Germany, and Dominik Hrbaty, Slovakia, vs. David Adams, South Africa, and Gaston Etlis (2), Argentina, ppd., rain.

Leos Friedl and Jiri Novak (4), Czech Republic, vs. Guillermo Canas, Argentina, and Younes El Aynaoui, Morocco, ppd., rain.

Karsten Braasch and Jens Knippschild, Germany, vs. Nicolas Lapentti, Ecuador, and Jeff Tarango, United States, ppd., rain.

Joshua Eagle, Australia, and David Rikl (1), Czech Republic, vs. Julien Boutter, France, and Orlin Stanoytchev, Russia, ppd., rain.

Rainer Schuettler, Germany, and Mikhail Youzhny, Russia, vs. Juan Ignacio Carrasco and Alex Lopez-Moron, Spain, ppd., rain.

Croatia Open
$381,000 men's tournament
At Umag, Croatia
Singles
First round
Luis Horna, Peru, def. Albert Montanes, Spain, 7-5, 6-2.

Victor Hanescu, Romania, def. Marcelo Rios (3), Chile, 6-0, 6-4.

Jurgen Melzer, Austria, def. Vincent Spadea, United States, 2-6, 6-3, 4-2, withdrew.

Nicolas Massu, Chile, def. Jan Vacek (8), Czech Republic, 6-0, 6-2.

Doubles
Second round
Albert Portas and Fernando Vicente, Spain, def. Tomas Cibulec and Daniel Vacek (1), Czech Republic, 6-2, 4-6, 7-6 (1).

Jaroslav Levinsky and David Skoch, Czech Republic, def. Todd Perry, Australia, and Paul Rosner, South Africa, 6-2, 6-4.

First round
Jim Thomas, United States, and Tom Vanhoudt, Belgium, def. Marc Marco and Carlos Moya, Spain, 4-6, 6-1, 6-1.

Frantisek Cermak, Czech Republic, and Julian Knowle, Austria, def. Paul Hanley and Michael Hill (2), Australia, 6-3, 6-4.

Agustin Calleri, Argentina, and Marc Lopez, Spain, def. Petr Pala and Pavel Vizner (3), Czech Republic, 6-4, 6-2.

Energis Open
$381,000 men's tournament
At Amersfoort, The Netherlands
Singles
Second round
Gaston Gaudio (3), Argentina, def. Jose Acasuso, Argentina, 3-6, 6-1, 6-1.

Albert Costa (1), Spain, def. Martin Verkerk, Netherlands, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4.

Jarkko Nieminen (5), Finland, def. Magnus Norman, Sweden, 7-5, 6-2.

Andre Sa, Brazil, def. Kristian Pless, Denmark, 6-1, 6-4.

Doubles
First round
Jeff Coetzee and Chris Haggard, South Africa, def. Robbie Koenig, South Africa, and Thomas Shimada (1), Japan, 7-5, 6-3.

Raemon Sluiter and Martin Verkerk, Netherlands, def. Paul Haarhuis and John van Lottum, Netherlands, 6-3, 3-6, 7-5.

Andre Sa and Alexandre Simoni, Brazil, def. Alex Corretja and Albert Costa, Spain, walkover.

Juan Ignacio Chela and Mariano Zabaleta, Argentina, def. Marius Barnard, South Africa, and Stephen Huss (3), Australia, 6-2, 6-3.