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Agassi overcomes Stepanek

DUBAI, FEB. 22. Andre Agassi dispatched Radek Stepanek 6-4, 7-5 on Monday in his first appearance at the $975,000 (euro746,840) Dubai Men's Open, earning a standing ovation from the largest crowd to see a tennis event in the United Arab Emirates.

The No. 4 seed in the 32-man field, Agassi delighted the capacity crowd in the 5,000-seat Dubai Tennis Stadium, prevailing in two hours and apologising for not coming sooner in the tournament's 12-year history.

Monaco upsets Chela

Argentina's Juan Monaco beat fourth-seeded countryman Juan Ignacio Chela 6-2, 6-3 on Monday in the first round of the Mexican Open at Acapulco.

Third-seeded Guillermo Canas of Argentina and fifth-seeded Jiri Novak of the Czech Republic also advanced. Canas led Argentina's Edgardo Massa 6-4, 2-2 when Massa retired, and Novak beat Costa Rica's Juan Antonio Marin 6-3, 7-5.

The results:

At Dubai (Dubai Men's Open): First round: Dominik Hrbaty bt Omar Bahrouzyan 6-0, 6-4; Fernando Verdasco bt Vladimir Voltchkov 6-2, 6-2; Andre Agassi bt Radek Stepanek 6-4, 7-5; Tomas Berdych bt Karol Beck 6-4, 7-6 (4); Rainer Schuettler bt Younes Al Aynaoui 6-0, 6-1.

At Qatar (Qatar Open): First round: Marion Bartoli bt Paola Suarez 6-1, 6-1; Jelena Kostanic bt Maria Elena Camerin 3-6, 7-5, 6-3; Elena Bovina bt Shinobou Asagoe 7-5, 7-6 (6); Ana Ivanovic bt Maria Vento-Kabchi 6-1, 6-0; Francesca Schiavone bt Silvia Farina Elia 6-1, 6-3.

At Scottsdale (ATP Tennis Channel Open): First round: Lars Burgsmuller bt Lu Yen-hsun 4-6, 6-4, 7-6 (3); Giovanni Lapentti bt Wesley Moodie 6-4, 6-1; Jeff Salzenstein bt Alex Bogomolov Jr. 6-3, 7-6 (4); Justin Gimelstob bt Kristof Vliegen 6-3, 7-6 (3); Irakli Labadze bt Alex Kuznetsov 3-6, 7-5, 6-1.

At Acapulco (ATP & WTA Mexican Open): Men: First round: Agustin Calleri bt Olivier Patience 7-5, 7-6 (7); Juan Monaco bt Juan Ignacio Chela 6-2, 6-3; Alberto Montanes bt Alejandro Hernandez 6-2, 6-3; Jiri Novak bt Juan Antonio Marin 6-3, 7-5; Santiago Ventura bt Nicolas Almagro 2-6, 6-4, 6-2; Guillermo Canas bt Edgardo Massa 6-4, 2-2 (withdrew); Mariano Puerta bt Guillermo Garcia 6-3, 7-6 (7).

Women: First round: Lilia Osterloh States bt Lindsay Lee-Waters 6-4, 6-4; Dally Randriantefy bt Angela Haynes 6-2, 6-2; Ludmila Cervanova bt Maria Sanchez Lorenzo 6-3, 7-5; Emilie Loit bt Melinda Czink 6-4, 6-0; Marta Domachowska bt Maria Jose Lopez Herrera 6-2, 6-2. — Agencies

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