* At the $2,450,000 Cincinnati Masters ATP tennis tournament in the U.S. (through August 20)
Singles:
- Dmitry Tursunov advanced to the second round, defeating Sebastien Grosjean (France) 4-6, 6-4, 6-3.
- No.5-seed Nikolai Davydenko failed to advance to the second round, losing to unseeded Juan Ignacio Chela (Argentina) 4-6, 6-2, 2-6
Doubles:
- Marat Safin and Mikhail Yuzhny advanced to the second round, beating Frantisek Cermak (Czech Republik) and Julian Knowle (Austria) in the deciding tiebreak 10-3 after the first two sets ended 7-6, 3-6
* At the $1,340,000 Rogers Cup WTA tennis tournament in Montreal, Canada (through August 20):
- No.15-seed Maria Kirilenko advanced to the second round, beating Jelena Kostanic (Croatia) 6-3, 4-6, 6-1
- Galina Voskoboyeva lost to No.12-seed Flavia Pennetta (Italy) 3-6, 1-6 in the first round
- No.3-seed Nadezhda Petrova, Svetlana Kuznetsova (4), Anastasia Myskina (6), and Dinara Safina (9) will start in the second round after receiving first-round byes
Doubles:
Anastasia Rodionova and Andreea Vanc (Romania) trounced Australian duo Nicole Pratt and Bryanne Stewart 6-0, 6-2 to advance to the second round
- Galina Voskoboeva and Alicia Molik (Australia) lost to sixth-seeded Chinese duo Ting.Li and Tiantian Sun 6-7, 1-6 in the first round
- Alina Jidkova and Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez (Spain) failed to advance to the second round, losing to No.7-seed duo Gisela Dulko (Argentina) and Corina Morariu (U.S.) 6-3, 4-6, 4-6
* Russia's national soccer team, headed for the first time by new Dutch coach Guus Hiddink, will face Latvia Wednesday evening in Moscow in a friendly before the September 6 Group E Euro-2008 qualifier against Croatia
