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Easy for Venus Williams

Gimelstob sails into second round

OKYO: Top-seeded Venus Williams coasted to a 6-3, 6-1 victory over Jill Craybas in the women’s first round of the Japan Open tennis tournament on Tuesday.

Williams needed just 58 minutes on the hardcourt surface at Ariake Colosseum to record a win over fellow American Craybas.

In men’s first round, American Justin Gimelstob posted a 6-4, 7-5 win over Lukasz Kubot of Poland to advance to the second round, while Vincent Spadea downed fellow American Amer Delic 6-3, 6-1.

The results: At Tokyo (Japan Open): Women: First round: Alicia Molik bt Akiko Morigami 6-1, 6-2; Yuan Meng bt Ai Sugiyama 6-3, 6-3; Venus Williams bt Jill Craybas 6-3, 6-1; Vania King bt Edina Gallovits 6-2, 5-7, 7-5; Camille Pin bt Maria Kirilenko 6-3, 4-6, 6-3.

Doubles: First round: Sania Mirza/ Christina Fusano bt Urszula Radwanska/ Agnes Szatmari 6-3, 6-2.

Men: First round: Justin Gimelstob bt Lukasz Kubot 6-4, 7-5; Vincent Spadea bt Amer Delic 6-3, 6-1; Rainer Schuettler bt Go Soeda 6-3, 1-6, 6-2; Benjamin Becker bt Takao Suzuki 7-5, 3-6, 6-4.

At Stuttgart (WTA Grand Prix): First round: Dinara Safina bt Katarina Srebotnik 5-7, 6-2, 6-4; Tatiana Golovin bt Martina Mueller 6-1, 6-1;

At Metz, France (ATP Metz Open): First round: Evgeny Korolev bt Potito Starace 6-3, 6-3; Jurgen Melzer bt David Guez 7-5, 6-7(2), 6-2; Philipp Kohlschreiber bt Agustin Calleri 6-3, 6-1. — Agencies

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