Americans Agassi-Courier, Young Flop at ATP Houston

It was a great gimmick while it lasted -- a little less than a day.

Jim Courier, playing his first ATP match since 2000, teamed with Andre Agassi as a wildcard doubles team at the ATP stop in Houston Monday, but the party came to an abrupt halt with a 6-2, 3-6, 6-1 loss to the unheralded Argentine/Peruvian pairing of Martin Garcia and Luis Horna.

"They are two of the greatest players in the game so we expected the people to be for them," Garcia said. "They were having fun and we started to have some fun, too."

The other oddity of the day, 15-year-old American wildcard Donald Young, was hammered 6-1, 6-4 by unseeded Spaniard Alex Calatrava, dropping his win loss mark on the year to 0-5.

Other singles winners Monday were (6) Sebastien Grosjean (d. Phau in three), (7) Jurgen Melzer (d. Puerta), and American Robby Ginepri (d. countryman Fish).

The final round of qualifying was also completed, with four advancing to the big dance in Mathias Boeker (USA), Alex Bogomolov Jr. (USA), Noam Okun (ISR), and Nicolas Lapentti (ECU).

On tap Tuesday in Houston are (1) Roddick vs. (Q) Boeker, (3) Haas vs. Vliegen, Tabara vs. (2) Agassi, in doubles Blake/Fish vs. (WC) Davis/Roddick, Popp vs. Morrison, Enqvist vs. (8) Horna, Minar vs. (WC) Blake, Dupuis vs. (4) Massu, Hernandez vs. (Q) Bogomolov Jr., Massa vs. Vanek, (Q) Okun vs. Mello, (5) Dent vs. K.Kim, and (Q) N.Lapentti vs. Zib.