BANGKOK — Philipp Petzschner advanced to the second round of the Thailand Open by beating Peerakiat Siriluethaiwattana of Thailand 6-1, 6-2 on Monday.
Petzschner reaches 2nd
round at Thailand Open
BANGKOK — Philipp Petzschner advanced to the second round of the Thailand Open by beating Peerakiat Siriluethaiwattana of Thailand 6-1, 6-2 on Monday.
The 107th-ranked Petzschner took less than an hour to win the only singles match of the day.
The four top-seeded players — Janko Tipsarevic of Serbia, Richard Gasquet of France, Milos Raonic of Canada and Gilles Simon of France — received byes in the first round.
Sijsling, Wang advance
at Malaysian Open
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Igor Sijsling of the Netherlands and Jimmy Wang of Taiwan each won Monday to advance to the second round of the Malaysian Open.
Sijsling needed only 50 minutes to beat Malaysia’s top-ranked player Ariez Elyaas Deen Heshaam 6-2, 6-1 at Kuala Lumpur’s Putra Stadium. He will face either Feliciano Lopez or Lukas Lacko of Slovakia in the second round.
Wang beat Riccardo Ghedin of Italy 6-3, 6-3, maintaining his strong play during a year in which he qualified for the main draw at Wimbledon and reached the second round at the U.S. Open.
Bartoli advances to 2nd
round at Pan Pacific Open
TOKYO — Marion Bartoli of France advanced to the second round of the Pan Pacific Open with a 6-1, 6-4 win Monday over local favorite Kimiko Date-Krumm, who had to deal with the distraction of a rowdy fan.
After dominating the first set, the ninth-seeded Bartoli faced a tougher challenge as Date-Krumm rallied from a 3-1 deficit in the second set.
Date-Krumm, who turns 42 on Thursday, closed the gap to 5-4 but was undone by two unforced errors in the last game when she had to contend with a loud intoxicated supporter.
In other matches, 11th-seeded Ana Ivanovic of Serbia advanced when Andrea Hlavackova of the Czech Republic was forced to retire with a left thigh injury with the former top-ranked Serb leading 6-3, 2-0.
Urszula Radwanska of Poland coasted to a 6-2, 6-4 win over Japan’s Kurumi Nara, while 17th-seeded Nadia Petrova of Russia downed China’s Peng Shuai 6-1, 6-4.
Jets’ Revis has torn ACL,
will likely miss season
FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — The NFL’s top shutdown cornerback will likely be shut down for the season.
Darrelle Revis has a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee that will require surgery, a huge blow for the New York Jets that leaves coach Rex Ryan without his best defensive player.
A somber Ryan stopped short of ruling Revis out for the season on Monday, saying he just learned of the MRI results. But Revis will have to wait two or three weeks before surgery, Ryan said, and the recovery from an ACL tear is usually six-to-nine months. So the chances of Revis returning this season appear extremely slim.
DiLeo ready to call
the shots as 76ers GM
PHILADELPHIA — Tony DiLeo had held about every position with the Philadelphia 76ers for more than two decades.
He can officially add general manager to that list.
DiLeo was introduced Monday as the new GM and he says he has the experience and ideas that can make the Sixers winners in the East. He’ll work alongside team president Rod Thorn.
Ownership had lauded DiLeo for his role in landing All-Star center Andrew Bynum from the Los Angeles Lakers.
DiLeo says Bynum returned last week from Germany where he had treatments done on his knees. Bynum had injections of plasma-rich platelets that supposedly stimulate healing in arthritis-affected areas in both of his knees.
DiLeo also says he’s a firm believer in analytics and wants the Sixers to use the Moneyball type of thinking popularized in baseball.
Seattle City Council
approves new arena deal
SEATTLE — A wealthy hedge-fund manager won approval Monday for his plan to bring professional men’s basketball and hockey back to Seattle, with initially skeptical City Council members agreeing to put up $200 million for a new arena after he promised to personally guarantee the city’s debt.
Council members voted 6-2 to approve Chris Hansen’s plan for a $490 million arena near the Seahawks and Mariners stadiums south of downtown.
By wire sources