LA Tennis Open, Sampras, Courier, Edberg, but still, starless
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The LA Open begins Monday and there are stars -- but mostly of the ‘legends’ variety. But here’s the schedule for the opening day and for most of the night sessions. The setting at UCLA is charming, Wolfgang Puck offers up some of his menu for an onsite restaurant and who knows, maybe a new ‘legend’ will be born.
Meantime, here are results from main draw qualifying plus most of the night session schedules.
Qualifying Singles - Second Round
(1) Josselin Ouanna (FRA) d Robert Khoury (USA) 6-2, 6-1
(2) Somdev Devvarman (IND) d Luka Gregorc (SLO) 6-1, 7-6 (1)
(4) Donald Young (USA) d Thomas Liversage (RSA) 6-2, 6-3
(5) Alex Bogomolov Jr. (USA) d James Ludlow (USA) 6-1, 6-1
(6) Ryan Sweeting (USA) d Steve Johnson (USA) 6-2, 6-1
Carsten Ball (AUS) d Go Soeda (JPN) 6-4, 6-4
Dusan Vemic (SRB) d Cecil Mamiit (PHI) 5-7, 7-6 (4), 7-6 (5)
Prakash Amritraj (IND) d Frank Moser (GER) 6-0, 7-6 (3)
Order of Play - Monday
Straus Stadium start noon
[WC] Chris Guccione (AUS) vs Kevin Kim (USA)
[WC] Jesse Levine (USA) vs Bobby Reynolds (USA)
Not Before 4:00 PM
Vince Spadea (USA) vs Robert Kendrick (USA)
Not Before 7:30 PM
‘Millennium Challenge’ Pete Sampras (USA) vs Marat Safin (RUS)
2009 Tournament Honoree Ceremony - Pete Sampras
[WC] M Baghdatis (CYP) / D Sela (ISR) vs I Kunitsyn (RUS) / M Safin (RUS)
Grandstand start noon
Qualifying - (4) Donald Young (USA) vs Carsten Ball (AUS)
Qualifying - (1) Josselin Ouanna (FRA) vs Dusan Vemic (SRB)
Qualifying - Prakash Amritraj (IND) vs (6) Ryan Sweeting (USA)
Qualifying - Somdev Devvarman (IND) vs (5) Alex Bogomolov Jr. (USA)
Tuesday 7:30 p.m. start
Robby Ginepri (USA) vs (8) Marat Safin (RUS)
Denis Istomin (UZB) vs (6) Sam Querrey (USA)
Wednesday 7 p.m. start
(1) Bob Bryan & Mike Bryan vs (WC) Carsten Ball & Kaes Van’t Hof
(1) Tommy Haas (GER) vs Levine or Reynolds
Thursday 7:30 p.m. start
Guccione or Kim vs (2) Mardy Fish (USA)
LEGENDS Michael Chang vs Stefan Edberg
-- Diane Pucin