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Wednesday, July 18
Wednesday's results

Mercedes Cup | Energis Open | Croatia Open | Sanex Trophy

Mercedes Cup
$1 million men's tournament
At Stuttgart, Germany
Singles
Second round
Franco Squillari (6), Argentina, def. Rogier Wassen, Netherlands, 6-3, 6-1.

Jiri Novak (12), Czech Republic, def. Galo Blanco, Spain, 6-3, 6-1.

Gaston Gaudio (14) Argentina, def. Marc Rosset, Switzerland, 6-3, 7-5.

Arnaud Clement (3), France, def. Nicolas Massu, Chile, 6-4, 3-6, 6-3.

Dominik Hrbaty (4), Slovakia, def. Francisco Clavet, Spain, 1-6, 6-3, 7-6 (3).

David Sanchez, Spain, def. Fabrice Santoro (5), France, 6-2, 6-1.

Nicolas Lapentti (9), Ecuador, def. Markus Hipfl, Austria, 6-2, 6-3.

Alberto Martin (13), Spain, def. Fernando Vicente, Spain, 6-1, 6-3.

Albert Costa (16), Spain, def. Cedric Pioline, France, 6-4, 5-7, 6-4.

Sergi Bruguera, Spain, def. Andreas Vinciguerra (11), Sweden, 6-2, 6-3.

Marc Lopez, Spain, def. Guillermo Coria (8), Argentina, 6-4, 7-6 (7).

Yevgeny Kafelnikov (2), Russia, def. Andrea Gaudenzi, Italy, 6-4, 6-6 (1-3), retired.

Doubles
Second round
Tomas Carbonell, Spain, and Nicolas Lapentti, Ecuador, def. Jiri Novak and David Rikl (1), Czech Republic, 5-7, 6-3, 6-3.

Pablo Albano and Lucas Arnold (5), Argentina, def. Simon Aspelin, Sweden, and Andrew Kratzmann, Australia, 6-3, 3-6, 6-3.

Michael Hill, Australia, and Jeff Tarango (4), United States, def. Juan Ignacio Carrasco, Spain, and Vadim Kutsenko, Uzbekistan, 6-4, 6-3.

Guillermo Canas, Argentina, and Rainer Schuettler, Germany, def. Marius Barnard, South Africa, and Cyril Suk, Czech Republic, 6-4, 7-5.

Petr Pala and Pavel Vizner, Czech Republic, def. Julien Knowle, Austria, and Lorenzo Manta, Switzerland, 6-3, 6-4.

First round
Aleksandar Kitinov, Macedonia, and Johan Landsberg, Sweden, def. Hicham Arazi, Morocco, and Julien Boutter, France, 6-3, 6-4.

Energis Open
$400,000 men's tournament
At Amsterdam, Netherlands
Singles
Second round
Alex Calatrava (4), Spain, def. Edwin Kempes, Netherlands, 4-6, 6-3, 6-3.

Alex Corretja (2), Spain, def. Olivier Mutis, France, 6-2, 4-6, 6-4.

Magnus Gustafsson (6), Sweden, def. Juan Antonio Marin, Costa Rica, 7-6 (4), 6-3.

Andrei Stoliarov, Russia, def. Jens Knippschild, Germany, 7-6 (2), 6-1.

First round
Jan Siemerink, Netherlands, def. Andre Sa, Brazil, 6-7 (5), 7-6 (8), 6-4.

Martin Lee, Britain, def. Karim Alami, Morocco, 6-4, 6-0.

Doubles
First round

Andre Sa and Alexandre Simoni, Brazil, def. Hugo Armando, United States, and Irakli Labadze, Georgia, 6-1, 6-2.

Karsten Braasch and Jens Knippschild, Germany, def. Tim Crichton and Peter Tramacchi, Australia, 7-6 (4), 6-1.

Robbie Koenig, South Africa, and Mark Merklein, Bahamas, def. Brandon Coupe, United States, and Paul Kilderry, Australia, 6-7 (2), 6-4, 6-4.

Croatia Open
$400,000 men's tournament
At Umag, Croatia
Singles
First round
Adrian Voinea, Romania, def. Albert Portas (2), Spain, 7-6 (1), 0-6, 6-4.

Albert Montanes, Spain, def. Michal Tabara (4), Czech Republic, 6-2, 6-0.

Ivan Ljubicic (6), Croatia, def. Federico Luzzi, Italy, 6-2, 7-6 (2).

Jerome Golmard (5), France, def. Luis Horna, Peru, 2-2, retired.

Doubles
Second round

Petr Luxa and Radek Stepanek (4), Czech Republic def. Jaroslav Levinsky and Daniel Vacek, Czech Republic, 6-3, 7-6 (4).

Giorgio Galimberti, Italy, and Ion Moldovan, Romania, def. Albert Portas and German Puentes (2), Spain, 6-1, 7-6 (5).

First round
Paul Hanley and Nathan Healey, Australia def. Ivan Cerovic, Croatia, and Marko Tkalec, Slovenia, 6-3, 6-1.

Sergio Roitman, Argentina, and Andres Schneiter, Italy, def. Pavel Kudrnac and Petr Kovacka, Czech Republic, 6-4, 6-2.

Jordan Kerr and Grant Silcock, Australia, def. Frantisek Cermak and David Skoch, Czech Republic, 6-3, 2-6, 6-1.

Sanex Trophy
$150,000 women's tournament
At Knokke-Heist, Belgium
Singles
Second round
(Play suspended by rain -- to resume Thursday)
Kim Clijsters (1) vs. Virginia Ruano-Pascual

Silvia Farrina Elia (2) vs. Rosanna de los Rios

Angeles Montolio (4) vs. Martina Muller

Magui Serna (5) def. Barbara Schwartz

Marta Marrero def. Denisa Chladkova, 6-1, 6-3

Gala Leon Garcia leads Amanda Hopmans, 6-4, suspended

Iroda Tulyaganova vs. Maria Jose Martinez

Cristina Torrens Vallero vs. Anna Isabela Medina Garrigues

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