Wayne Odesnik

Monfils wins at Vienna tennis event

Vienna -- Third-seeded Gael Monfils beat Guillermo Garcia-Lopez in a straight sets first-round match Wednesday at the Bank Austria Tennis Trophy at Vienna.

Monfils, the tournament's 2008 runner-up, defeated his Spanish foe 7-5, 6-4, winning 79 percent of service points and hitting seven aces.

If Monfils, a Paris native, wins the Vienna event, he will earn 160 points in his effort to qualify for the season-ending men's singles final at London next month.

Roddick reaches third round in Washington

Washington, Aug. 5: Top-seeded Andy Roddick coasted into the third round of the Legg Mason Classic in Washington Wednesday with a 6-3, 6-2 decision over Benjamin Becker.

Roddick, gearing up for next month's U.S. Open, will next meet Sam Querrey, who is coming off his triumph last week in Los Angeles.

Querrey advanced past the second round with a 6-3, 6-4 decision over Igor Kunitsyn.

No. 4 seed Fernando Gonzalez reached the third round by surviving against qualifier Alejandro Falla 7-5, 7-5. His third-round opponent will be Wayne Odesnik, who dropped Igor Andreev 2-6, 7-5, 6-4.

Juan Carlos Ferrero, runner-up last week in a tournament in Croatia, ousted Tommy Robredo 6-3, 6-2 to set up a meeting with Tommy Haas.