Roddick Wins at Queen's, Federer, Maleeva, Suarez Win Weekend Titles

ATP REVIEW/PREVIEW
No upsets but plenty of close calls Monday in 's-Hertogenbosch on the grass, with (2)Srichaphan beating (Q)Logtens in three sets, (6)Robredo coming back to beat (LL)Moser in three, with homecountry favorite (3)Schalken easing by Spaniard Al Portas. Seeds in action today in The Netherlands include (4)Verkerk vs. Burgsmuller in the French runner-up's first-ever grasscourt match, (WC)Hemmes, Jr. vs. (7)Clement, (1)Novak vs. Melzer, (8)Acasuso vs. van Lottum, and (Q)Petzschner vs. (5)Grosjean. Unseeds Kiefer and two-time champion Krajicek are also on court today.
Two of the three seeds in opening day action went down in Nottingham Monday, with German giant Alexander Popp beating (4)Spadea in straights, and Brit wildcard Alex Bogdanovic thrilling the locals with a win over struggling (5)Gambill. "It's definitely the best win of my career," said Bogdanovic, who lamented Jan-Mike's lack of weapons. "I was playing really well and he really couldn't hurt me." American and No. 8 seed Mardy Fish was the only seeded winner, dispatching of Korea's Lee in three sets. Snot-tingham seeds in action today are (1)El Aynaoui vs. Waske, Bjorkman vs. (2)Youzhny, and (7)Dent vs. Vahaly.

WTA REVIEW/PREVIEW
Eastbourne kicked off play Monday with only two matches on the lawns, with Silvia Farina Elia putting the beat-down on Clarisa Fernandez, and Alexandra Stevenson posting a rare win over Brit wildcard (that explains it) Lucie Ahl. Today gets to the meat in Eastbourne with Raymond vs. Maleeva, Sugiyama vs. Keothavong, Coetzer vs. Myskina, Dokic vs. Obata, Pistolesi vs. Daniilidou, Dechy vs. Shaughnessy, (WC)Janes vs. Amy "Down Goes" Frazier, Bovina vs. Tanasugarn, and Likhovtseva vs. Talaja.
's-Hertogenbosch kicked off with a full slate Monday, with American and No. 7 seed Ashley "Playing More Like Anna Every Day" Harkleroad losing in three sets to Marlene Weingartner. Seeds advancing were (6)Tulyaganova (d. Krasnoroutskaya), (8)Srebotnik (d. Matevzic), and (4)Dementieva (d. Loit). Dutch wildcard Michaella "Little Sis" Krajicek also got worked in her WTA debut. Today's schedule sees Mauresmo vs. Bartoli, Clijsters vs. Black, Petrova vs. Widjaja, Rittner vs. Grande, Sanchez-Lorenzo vs. Pratt, and Cho vs. Callens.

WTA 'S-HERTOGENBOSCH WINNERS
2002 Eleni Daniilidou
2001 Justine Henin
2000 Martina Hingis
1999 Kristina Brandi
1998 Julie Halard - Decugis
1997 Ruxandra Dragomir
1996 Anke Huber

WTA EASTBOURNE WINNERS
2002 Chanda Rubin (USA)
2001 Lindsay Davenport (USA)
2000 Julie Halard-Decugis (FRA)
1999 Natasha Zvereva (BLR)
1998 Jana Novotna (CZE)
1997 Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario (ESP) vs. Jana Novotna (CZE) n/p
1996 Monica Seles (USA)
1995 Nathalie Tauziat (FRA)
1994 Meredith McGrath (USA)
1993 Martina Navratilova (USA)
1992 Lori McNeil (USA)
1991 Martina Navratilova (USA)
1990 Martina Navratilova (USA)
1989 Martina Navratilova (USA)
1988 Martina Navratilova (USA)
1987 Helena Sukova (CZE)
1986 Martina Navratilova (USA)
1985 Martina Navratilova (USA)
1984 Martina Navratilova (USA)
1983 Martina Navratilova (USA)
1982 Martina Navratilova (USA)
1981 Tracy Austin (USA)
1980 Tracy Austin (USA)
1979 Chris Evert (USA)
1978 Martina Navratilova (USA)

TOUR NOTES, QUOTES, AND BARBS
Martina Navratilova plans to play doubles at Wimbledon, where she hopes to equal Billie Jean King's record of 20 overall titles at the All England Club...Wimbledon withdrawals thus far include Anna Kournikova, Monica Seles, Mariana Diaz-Olivia, Anne Kremer, Tatiana Panova, Tommy Haas, Thomas Johansson, Goran Ivanisevic, Marcelo Rios, and Carlos Moya...Boris Becker is picking Lleyton Hewitt to repeat at Wimbledon. He's also picking Hewitt to ruin the ATP...During Queen's, Andy Roddick who tied the record for fastest serve at 149-mph, wasn't the only one benefiting for a super-charged radar gun, Andre Agassi had one clocked at 132-mph, and even Sebastien Grosjean smacked a 130-mph. Yeah, like that gun was legit. Sorry Andy....Fernando Vicente trailed Davide Sanguinetti 0-6, 0-3, before turning it around for a win Monday in 's-Hertogenbosch...Nenad Zimonjic and Alexander Popp (coming back from a wrist injury) won their first ATP matches of the year yesterday at Nottingham; why is that important? It's not...Wayne Arthurs won a 19-17 tiebreak en route to a win over qualifier Bob Bryan yesterday at Nottingham, the longest tiebreak in four years...The ATP announced it has appointed Chris Clouser, former CEO for the Minnesota Twins, as Chief Executive Officer of ATP Properties and President of ATP, Inc.; hope he can put up better numbers than the Twins...Per their convoluted seeding formula -- three parts grass, two parts tea and one part Montana biscuit, the Wimbledon Seeding Committee took another step to piss off the ATP Tuesday, seeding Lleyton Hewitt No. 1 for Wimbledon ahead of world No. 1-ranked Andre Agassi; the committee also graciously seeded No. 29-ranked Tim Henman at No. 10 -- good show, with his shoulder problem he will be out by the fourth round...WTA star Maria "Jail Bait" Sharapova is in her second year of high school in Russia and studies via the Internet...Happy Birthday Venus Williams...Eleni Daniilidou is the only Top 15 player scheduled to play Palermo the week after Wimbledon, get your tickets while you can... Yevgeny Kafelnikov, who broke his promise to retire if Russia won the Davis Cup, now says he will retire if he can win the Kremlin Cup in Moscow in October: "I badly want to win in Moscow one more time," the un-retirable Russian told Sport-Express newspaper. "If I could take another Kremlin Cup, I would retire for sure." Dammit, just retire already...Kafelnikov is also not above taking a shot at current No. 1 Andre Agassi: "One thing I know for sure -- I would not stick around for as long as he has. I don't want people making fun of me chasing tennis balls on the court when I'm 33." News Flash: they don't make fun of you when you win, Yevgeny...French runner-up Martin Verkerk is still recovering from celebrating back in Belgium: "It was a big victory. They had a ceremony for me and it was as if we got a World Cup in soccer or something."