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 Thursday, January 6
Thursday's results
 
 Hopman Cup | Australian Hardcourt Championships | Australian Women's Hardcourt Championships | ASB Bank Classic | Gold Flake Open | Qatar Open


Hopman Cup
At Perth Australia
$900,000 men's and women's tournament

Round Robin
Thailand 3, Slovakia 0
Tamarine Tanasugarn, Thailand, def. Henrieta Nagyova, Slovakia, 2-6, 6-2, 4-1 retired.

Paradorn Srichaphan, Thailand, def. Karol Kucera, Slovakia, 4-6, 7-6 (7-2), 6-2.

Tanasugarn and Srichiphan def. Nagyova and Kucera, default.

United States 2, South Africa 1
Amanda Coetzer, South Africa, def. Alexandra Stevenson, United States, 6-3, 6-1.

James Blake, United States, def. Wayne Ferreira, South Africa, 6-4, 6-4.

Stevenson and Blake def. Coetzer and Ferreira 6-7 (5-7), 6-3, 6-2.

Sweden 2, Belgium 1
Dominique Van Roost, Belgium, def. Asa Carlsson, Sweden, 6-2, 6-3.
Jonas Bjorkman, Sweden, def. Xavier Malisse, Belgium, 6-4, 6-3.
Carlsson and Bjorkman def. Van Roost and Malisse 6-1, 7-5.


Australian Hardcourt Championships
At Adelaide, Australia
$350,000 men's tournament

Singles
Second round

Nicolas Escude (8), France, def. Slava Dosedel, Czech Republic, 7-6 (7-5), 6-4.

Tim Henman (2), Britain, def. Jean-Rene Lisnard, France 3-6, 6-4, 6-2.

Sebastien Grosjean (7), France, def. Jan-Michael Gambill, United States, 3-6, 7-6 (7-4), 6-2.

Thomas Enqvist (1), Sweden, def. Roger Federer, Switzerland, 7-6 (7-5), 6-4.


Australian Women's Hardcourt Championships
At Gold Coast, Australia
Women's tournament

Quarterfinals
Conchita Martinez (3), Spain, def. Sabine Appelmans, Belgium, 7-6 (7-3), 4-6, 6-4.

Arantxa Sanchez Vicario (4), Spain, def. Patty Schnyder (5), Switzerlands 2-6, 7-6 (7-2), 6-3.

Nathalie Dechy (6) France, def. Magdalena Maleeva, Bulgaria, 6-4, 6-7 (2-7), 7-6 (8-6).


ASB Bank Classic
At Auckland, Australia
Women's tournament

Quarterfinals
Cara Black (6), Zimbabwe, def. Elena Likhovtseva (1), Russia 6-3, 7-5

Meghann Shaughnessy, United States, def. Anna Smashnova (5), Israel, 6-4, 6-2

Anne Kremer (2), Luxembourg, def. Paola Suarez, Argentina, 6-3, 5-7, 6-4

Amanda Hopmans, Netherlands, def. Miroslava Vavrinec, Switzerland, 7-6 (8-6), 6-2


Gold Flake Open
At Chennai, India
$430,000 men's tournament

Singles
Second round

Cedric Piolene, France, def. Leander Paes, India, 6-3, 6-4.

Davide Sanguinetti, Italy, def. Andreas Vinciguerra, Sweden, 2-6, 7-5, 6-3.

Jamie Delgado, England, def. Orlin Stanoytchev, Bulgaria, 4-6, 6-2, 6-3.

Jerome Golmard, France, def. Fredrik Jonsson, Sweden, 6-2, 6-3.

Doubles
Quarterfinals

Jermone Golmard, France, and Jan Krolak, Slovakia, def. Michal Tabara and Tomas Zib, Czech Republic, 6-4, 4-6, 6-3.

Saurav Panja and Srinath Prahlad, India, def. Kirill Ivanov-Smolensky, Russia, and Orlin Stanoytchev, Bulgaria, 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (7-3).

Tuomas Ketola, Finland, and Oleg Ogorodov, Uzbekistan, def. Martin Damm, Czech Republic, and Yevgeny Kafelnikov (2), Russia, 7-5, 1-6, 6-3.


Qatar Open
At Doha, Qatar
$1 million men's tournament

Singles
Second round

Nicolas Kiefer (1), Germany, def. Cristiano Caratti, Italy, 6-1, 6-1.

Rainer Schuttler, Germany, def. Daniel Vacek (7), Czech Republic, 6-3, 6-2.

Sjeng Schalken (8), Netherlands, def. Franco Squillari, Argentina, 4-6, 6-1, 6-1.

Max Mirnyi, Belarus, def. Juan Antonio Marin, Costa Rica, 6-0, 6-1.

Doubles
Quarterfinals

Alex O'Brien and Jared Palmer (1), United States, def. Mikael Tillstrom, Sweden, and Nenad Zimonjic, Yugoslavia, 6-2, 6-2.

Olivier Delaitre and Fabrice Santoro (4), France, def. David Macpherson, Australia, and Peter Nyborg, Sweden, 6-4, 6-7 (1-7), 7-6 (7-2).

Mark Knowles, Bahamas, and Max Mirnyi, Belarus, def. Jeff Tarango, United States, and Daniel Vacek (3), Czech Republic, 6-3, 6-4.

 


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