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Safin downs Okun

BANGKOK, SEPT. 29. Former World No. 1 Marat Safin stormed into the second round of the Thailand Open on Wednesday with a confident 6-2, 6-3 win over Israel's Noam Okun.

The results: At Bangkok (Thai Open): First round: Marat Safin bt Noam Okun 6-2, 6-3; Jiri Vanek bt Danai Udomchoke 3-6, 7-5, 6-2; Robin Soderling bt Harel Levy 6-3, 6-4; Adrian Garcia bt Satoshi Iwabuchi 7-6 (5), 6-3; Rogier Wassen bt Igor Andreev 6-1, 6-2; Paradorn Srichaphan bt Marco Chiudinelli 6-4, 7-6(3); Andy Roddick bt Arvind Parmar 6-1, 6-4; Ivo Heuberger bt Attila Savolt 6-4, 6-1.

At Seoul (Hansol Korea Open): Second round: Samantha Stosur bt Galina Voskoboeva 6-2, 6-4; Abigail Spears bt Shinobu Asagoe 6-3, 1-6, 6-3; Sanda Mamic bt Catalina Castano 7-5, 6-4; Silvija Talaja bt Yuka Yoshida 4-6, 6-3, 6-0; Marta Domachowska bt Chuang Chia-jung 7-5, 6-1.

At Guangzhou (Guangzhou Open): Second round: Na Li bt Jelena Jankovic 0-6, 6-2, 7-6(6); Kristina Brandi bt Nannan Liu 7-6(5), 6-3. First round: Dinara Safina bt Mariana Diaz-Oliva 6-1, 6-2; Jie Zheng bt Maria Vento-Kabchi 6-2, 6-0; Kristina Brandi bt Nannan Liu 7-6(5), 6-3.

At Brussels (WTA Gaz de France Stars): First round: Virginia Ruano Pascual bt Jelena Kostanic 3-6, 7-6(3), 6-4; Denisa Chladkova bt Arantxa Parra Santonja 6-1, 6-4; Elena Bovina bt Carolina Maes 6-1, 6-1; Francesca Schiavone bt Mara Santangelo 6-2, 6-0; Silvia Farina Elia bt Tatiana Perebiynis 5-7, 6-3, 6-1; Maria Sanchez Lorenzobt Claudine Schaul 6-3, 6-0; Iveta Benesova bt Angelika Bachmann 6-4, 6-3; Maria Elena Camerin bt Capucine Rousseau 6-2, 6-0; Magdalena Maleeva bt Lindsay Lee-Waters 6-3, 6-3; Vanessa Henke bt Kirsten Flipkens 6-2, 1-6, 6-4; Michaela Pastikova bt Tathiana Garbin 7-6(4), 6-4; Els Callens bt Eva Birnerova 7-6(5), 6-4.

At Shanghai (ATP Heineken Open): First round: Janko Tipsarevic bt John Van Lottum 6-1, 6-4; Jarkko Nieminen bt Bjorn Phau 3-6, 6-3, 6-4; Jiri Novak bt Lu Yen-hsun 6-2, 6-2; Wayne Arthurs bt Lee Hyung-Taik w/o.; Ricardo Mello bt Alexander Peya 6-4, 6-3; Lars Burgsmuller bt Zeng Shaoxuan 6-3, 6-4; Kristian Pless bt Christophe Rochus 4-6, 7-5, 6-0; Zhu Benqiang bt Tomas Zib 1-6, 6-4, 6-4; Edouard Roger-Vasselin bt Nathan Healey 4-6, 7-6(9), 6-4; Melle Van Gemerden bt Jan Vacek 6-4, 6-2; Glenn Weiner bt Mark Philippoussis 3-6, 6-4, 6-4; Jan-Michael Gambill bt Ivo Klec 6-4, 6-3.

At Palermo (Campionati di Sicilia): First round: Potito Starace bt Richard Gasquet 7-6(6), 4-6, 6-1; Galo Blanco bt Alessio Di Mauro 2-6, 6-2, 6-2; Rafael Nadal bt Nicolas Almagro 6-1, 7-5; Filippo Volandri bt Albert Montanes 6-2, 6-3; Juan Monaco bt Philipp Kohlschreiber 3-6, 6-4 retd.; Andreas Seppi bt Arnaud di Pasquale 6-7(2), 6-2, 6-4; Alex Calatrava bt Daniel Elsner 6-1, 6-0; Marc Lopez bt Daniel Gimeno-Traver 6-2, 6-2; David Ferrer bt Alberto Martin 2-6, 6-1, 6-4; Kristof Vliegen bt Mariano Puerta 6-1, 6-2; Nikolay Davydenko bt Victor Hanescu 6-2, 7-5.

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