* At the $850,000 Stella Artois ATP tennis tournament in London (through June 18)
Singles:
- Dmitry Tursunov, seeded No. 15 for the tournament, advanced to the second round by defeating Alex Bogdanovic (U.K.) 7-6, 6-4
- Igor Kunitsin lost to Bobby Reynolds (U.S.) 4-6, 4-6 in the first round
- Nikolai Davydenko (4) will start in the second round after receiving a first-round bye
Doubles:
- Tursunov and Tripp Phillips (U.S.) advanced to the second round by defeating Fernando Gonzalez (Chile) and Thomas Johansson (Sweden) 6-3, 2-6, 11-9
* At the $850,000 Gerry Weber ATP tennis tournament in Halle, Germany (through June 18)
Singles:
- Last year's runner-up Marat Safin advanced to the second round, beating Florent Serra (France) 7-6, 6-3
- Mikhail Yuzhny lost to Fabrice Santoro (France) 6-7, 2-6 in the first round
Doubles:
- Safin and Yves Allegro (Switzerland) advanced to the second round, beating Marcos Baghdatis (Cyprus) and Olivier Rochus (Belgium) 6-4, 4-6, 10-1
- Yuzhny and Andrei Pavel (Romania) beat Polish duo Mariusz Fyrstenberg and Marcin Matkowski 7-5, 7-6 to advance to the second round
* At the $200,000 DFS Classic WTA tennis tournament in Birmingham, England (through June 18)
Singles:
- Olga Puchkova advanced to the second round by defeating Viktoriya Kutuzova (Ukraine) 2-6, 6-2, 6-3
- Vera Zvonaryova trounced Anne Kremer (Luxembourg) 6-0, 6-1 in the first round
- Yelena Vesnina beat Virginie Razzano (France) 6-3, 3-6, 6-0 to advance to the second round
- Defending champion and top seed Maria Sharapova, Yelena Likhovtseva (4), and Anna Chakvetadze (7) will start in the second round after receiving a first-round bye
- Anastasia Rodionova lost to No.15 seed Samantha Stosur (Australia) 2-6, 6-3, 4-6 in the first round
