Tennis
Coria ousted in BMW Open MUNICH, Germany (AP) – German qualifier Denis Gremelmayr upset top-seeded Guillermo Coria 3-6, 6-2, 6-3 Tuesday to advance to the second round of the BMW Open.
Four other seeded players – No. 2 Mario Ancic, No. 4 Tommy Haas, No. 7 Mikhail Youzhny and No. 8 Florent Serra – were knocked out in the first round.
Third-seeded Jarko Nieminen beat Andrei Pavel 7-6 (7), 7-6 (7), and fifth-seeded Oliver Rochus defeated Potito Starace 6-2, 6-3.
Philipp Kohlschreiber beat Ancic 7-6 (3), 7-6 (5). Ivo Karlovic served 22 aces to top Haas 6-3, 7-6 (3). Juergen Melzer defeated Youzhny 6-3, 6-4, and Robin Soderling edged Serra 6-7 (6), 7-5, 6-4.
Myskina falls
WARSAW, Poland – Polish teenager Agnieszka Radwanska beat former French Open champion Anastasia Myskina of Russia 6-4, 4-6, 6-4 Tuesday to advance to the second round of the J&S Cup.
The 17-year-old Radwanska broke Myskina to open the third set. The 12th-ranked Russian had a break point trailing 5-4, but hit a forehand long at deuce to give the 312th-ranked Radwanska match point.
Radwanska hit a forehand winner down the line to seal the match.
“The win was a huge surprise for me,” said Radwanska, who next plays Klara Koukalova of the Czech Republic. “She’s one of the world’s top players and I didn’t expect that I could win this match – but I’m very happy that I did.”
Also, 16th-ranked Daniela Hantuchova of Slovakia edged Israel’s Anna Smashnova 4-6, 7-5, 6-3 in a match lasting 2 hours, 37 minutes, and fifth-seeded Francesca Schiavone of Italy beat Finland’s Emma Laine 6-0, 6-1.
“I was just really glad how I stuck in there and kept fighting for every point,” Hantuchova said. “That’s what makes the difference for me, now being able to win these matches.”