March, 14 2005	Monday	03 Safar 1426

INDIAN WELLS (California), March 13: Third seed Andy Roddick and last year’s runner-up Tim Henman survived tough opening matches at the Pacific Life Open Masters Series event on Saturday.

By contrast, world number one Lindsay Davenport and Wimbledon champion Maria Sharapova cruised to victories in the women’s competition.

Men:

First round: Mardy Fish (U.S.) bt Jan-Michael Gambill (U.S.) 6-2 6-2; Michael Llodra (France) bt Davide Sanguinetti (Italy) 6-3 6-2; Gilles Muller (Luxembourg) bt Jean-Rene Lisnard (France) 6-4 7-5; Jarkko Nieminen (Finland) bt Luis Horna (Peru) 6-0 7-6 (7-1); Paul-Henri Mathieu (France) bt Alex Calatrava (Spain) 6-3 3-6 6-1; Jan Hernych (Czech Republic) bt Ramon Delgado (Paraguay) 6-2 6-4; Cyril Saulnier (France) bt Victor Hanescu (Romania) 6-2 6-2; Robby Ginepri (U.S.) bt Jose Acasuso (Argentina) 7-6 7-6.

Second round: James Blake (U.S.) bt 15-Nikolay Davydenko (Russia) 6-3 7-6 (8-6); Fernando Gonzalez (Chile) bt Greg Rusedski (Britain) 7-6 (7-4) 7-6 (7-5); Guillermo Coria (Argentina) bt Kevin Kim (U.S.) 7-6 (7-2) 7-6 (7-3); Andre Agassi (U.S) bt Wayne Arthurs (Australia) 6-4 6-1; Andrei Pavel (Romania) bt Gregory Carraz (France) 6-7 (5-7) 7-6 (8-6) 6-2; Jonas Bjorkman (Sweden) bt Thomas Johansson (Sweden) 4-6 6-3 7-6 (7-0); Paradorn Srichaphan (Thailand) bt Agustin Calleri (Argentina) 7-5 6-4; Jurgen Melzer (Austria) bt Paul Goldstein (U.S.) 7-6 (7-3) 3-6 6-3; 8-Gaston Gaudio (Argentina) bt Max Mirnyi (Belarus) 6-7 (5-7) 6-3 7-6 (7-4); Andy Roddick (U.S.) bt Fernando Verdasco (Spain) 6-3 3-6 7-6 (7-2); Tim Henman (Britain) bt Arnaud Clement (France) 4-6 6-4 6-3; David Nalbandian (Argentina) bt Juan Monaco (Argentina) 6-2 6-1; Tommy Robredo (Spain) bt Gael Monfils (France) 6-3 6-1; Jiri Novak (Czech Republic) bt Olivier Rochus (Belgium) 6-3 6-4; Nicolas Kiefer (Germany) bt Sargis Sargsian (Armenia) 6-0 6-0; Thomas Enqvist (Sweden) bt 18-Michel Youzhny (Russia) 7-5 6-1.

Women:

Second round: Nathalie Dechy (France) bt Emilie Loit (France) 6-2 4-6 6-3; Daniela Hantuchova (Slovakia) bt Anne Kremer (Luxembourg) 4-6 6-3 7-5; Jill Craybas (U.S.) bt 10-Elena Likhovtseva (Russia) 6-1 6-4; Samantha Stosur (Australia) bt Cho Yoon-Jeong (South Korea) 7-5 6-3; Ludmilla Cervanova (Slovakia) bt 20-Mary Pierce (France) 2-6 6-1 7-5; Maria Sharapova (Russia) bt Angela Haynes (U.S.) 6-1 6-2; Lindsay Davenport (U.S.) bt Sesil Karatantcheva (Bulgaria) 6-3 6-2; Nicole Vaidisova (Czech Republic) bt 11-Karolina Sprem (Croatia) 6-1 3-6 6-1; Fabiola Zuluaga (Columbia) bt Maria Sanchez Lorenzo (Spain) 6-2 7-5; Jessica Kirkland (U.S.) bt 22-Marion Bartoli (France) 6-0 6-1; 25-Dinara Safina (Russia) bt Lindsay Lee-Waters (U.S.) 6-2 6-4; 27-Meghann Shaughnessy (U.S.) bt Shika Uberoi (U.S.) 7-5 6-1; Lisa Raymond (U.S.) bt Alyona Bondarenko (Ukraine) 4-6 6-3 6-3; 6-Nadia Petrova (Russia) bt Antonella Serra Zanetti (Italy) 6-0 6-1.—Reuters