Defending Champ Moya Out at Cincy, Toronto snoozes Into Day Two

ATP REVIEW/PREVIEW
Only three of eight seeded players in action Monday at the TMS-Cincinnati advanced, with losers including defending champion (4)Moya (l. to Santoro in three, blowing two break points in the final game to get back on serve), (12)Novak (l. to Rusedski in three), (15)Robredo (l. to Mathieu in three), (16)Verkerk (l. to (Q)Okun 6-1 in the third), and (17)Mantilla (l. to Enqvist). Moya has three straight first-round losses since he won the title in Croatia last month. "I have no confidence right now," Moya said. "When you have no confidence, you don't know what to do...Yeah, it's a bad loss. You know, lately I've lost a few first-round matches and I'm not full of confidence." The three seeds who lived to see another day were (6)Coria (d. Henman in three), (11)Schalken (d. H.-T. Lee), and (13)Gonzalez (d. Vahaly). Un-seeds of note advancing were Blake (d. Ferreira), (Q)Arazi (d. Chang 6-0 in the third, with Chang blowing a match point), (WC)T.Martin (d. Acasuso), and Ginepri (d. Stepanek 6-0 in the third). "You know, you're serving for the match, then you get a match point, it's a little bit discouraging," Chang said. "Then just for some reason, the old energy level kind of went down. Hicham picked up his game a little bit, and the third set went pretty quick. I think I got a little bit nervous serving for it at 65. I threw in a couple doubles. That really didn't help my cause too much." Nice way to end a career, showing that mental toughness.

Matches of note Tuesday are (Q)Draper vs. (3)Federer (first meeting), Philippoussis vs. Fish (Fish leads head-to-head 1-0), (5)Hewitt vs. Malisse, (Q)Verdasco vs. (7)Roddick, (8)Schuettler vs. (Q)Koubek (Koubek leads 2-1), F.Lopez vs. (9)Srichaphan, Davydenko vs. (2)Ferrero (first meeting), (10)Grosjean vs. (Q)Moodie, Zabaleta vs. (14)Kuerten, Spadea vs. El Aynaoui, Clement vs. Costa, Kafelnikov vs. Gambill (Y-Man leads 2-0), and Corretja vs. Mirnyi.

WTA REVIEW/PREVIEW
A dull day in Toronto saw only three bargain-priced seeds in action, with one going down in No. 11 Silvia Farina Elia falling to Katarina Srebotnik in straight sets. Seeded winners were (9)Dementieva (d. Molik) and (10)Zvonareva (d. Schett). Two qualifiers also advanced in (Q)Widjaja (d. Gagliardi), and (Q)Obata (d. Asagoe). On court today are Krasnoroutskaya vs. Daniilidou, Widjaja vs. Dokic, Pierce vs. Vento-Kabchi, Likovtseva vs. Sharapova, Pelletier vs. Washington, Dechy vs. Tanasugarn, Pratt vs. Ko, Serna vs. Maleeva, Coetzer vs. Obata, Suarez vs. Kuznetsova, Jidkova vs. Schiavone, Sanchez Lorenzo vs. Bovina, Petrova vs. Weingartner, and Grande vs. Black.

NEWS, NOTES, QUOTES, AND BARBS
Birthday wishes go out to Pete Sampras who turns 32 Tuesday…Lleyton Hewitt says he has essentially given up on the race for No. 1 this year: "It's not something that's high on the priority list. That's something I'll put my mind to next year."...Australian tennis columnists have nicknamed Lleyton "Satan Hewitt"...Five of the WTA's top eight players and nine of its Top 20 competitors have pulled out of tournaments during the past three weeks...The World Team Tennis final between the Delaware Smash and Sacramento Capitals is scheduled for Saturday, Aug. 23, at the National Tennis Center...Only 11 of the Top 20 players at the WTA Tour stop in Toronto this week, a Tier I event...ESPN will be televising WTA Toronto Friday-Sunday, but will likely pull the plug on the match to show Federer-Roddick instead...Kim Clijsters joins Martina Navratilova, Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario, Martina Hingis and Lindsey Davenport as the only players to have held the No. 1 singles and doubles rankings...From the OOPS department: The ATP issued a retraction that Roger Federer cannot go to No. 1 by winning one match this week in Cincinnati, but instead must reach the semifinals in order to pass Andre Agassi for No. 1 -- stone. In order for Juan Carlos Ferrero to take No. 1 in the ATP Rankings this week, he'll have to reach the final and Roger Federer will have to lose before the semifinals. Now you now why the ATP was trying to get rid of the ESP - too complicated even for them to figure out!...Brian Vahaly unveiled the Brian Vahaly Brighter Future Foundation to promote both Georgia youth tennis and collegiate tennis by offering college scholarships, as well as support the Christian charitable organization, St. Vincent de Paul Society. An all-star gala fundraiser will be held in Atlanta on December 12-13, where Vahaly will be joined by Andy Roddick and girlfriend Mandy Moore...Roger Federer is a career 0-2 at the TMS-Cincinnati entering the event...Camera maker Olympus reportedly signed a four-year $20 million dollar deal with the USTA…Michael Stich defeated John McEnroe 6-4, 6-0 to win the Vale do Lobo Grand Champions tournament in the Algarve. The Delta Tour of Champions continues this week in Graz, Austria, where Thomas Muster will join Alex Antonisch, Boris Becker, Pat Cash, Andres Gomez, Henri Leconte, Stich and Mats Wilander to challenge for the title...Andre Agassi was fined $60,000 by the ATP for skipping Cincinnati. That's seat-cushion money...Tommy Haas has stated he will be out for the rest of the season, which begs the question, "Just who is Tommy Haas?"