Clijsters Wins, Henin Rained Out at Berlin

"(The shoulder) bothers me on every single shot," Moya said. "It was much better than Saturday, though. Now I have a week off and then I'll check how it is in Hamburg for the French."

Other seeds sent home were (8) David Nalbandian (l. to Santoro in three) who was still recovering from his Munich win, and (13) Tommy Robredo (l. to (Q) Benneteau, bagel in the second) coming off his final is Estoril.

"I had that match won," Nalbandian said after his loss to the Frenchman Santoro. "I was 4-3 up, 40-15 and serving but it just escaped me. It was incredible."

Other seeded winners were (3) Gaston Gaudio (d. Beck), (5) Rafael Nadal (d. Youzhny, bagel in the first), (11) Guillermo Canas (d. Pavel), (12) Ivan Ljubicic (d. O.Rochus), and (15) Radek Stepanek (d. Ancic in three).

Un-seeds into the second round were German Nicolas Kiefer (d. countryman Haas, dropping only four games), Italian Filippo Volandri (d. El Aynaoui, bagel in the first), Argentina's Juan Ignacio Chela (d. Llodra), Peru's Luis Horna (d. Mayer, saving a match point), Spanish lucky loser Al Martin (d. Schuettler, who retired with a wrist injury after losing the first seven games), and Chile's Nicolas Massu (d. (Q) Mathieu, bagel in the first).

On tap for Wednesday on the dirt are (1) Roddick vs. Costa in the day's feature, (Q) Gasquet vs. (6) Agassi, Volandri vs. (3) Gaudio, (Q) Almagro vs. (2) Safin, (9) Guillermo "El Mago" Coria vs. Kiefer, (4) Henman vs. Massu , (WC) "You Say" Potito Starace vs. (LL) A.Martin, (5) Rafael "The Prodigy" Nadal vs. (Q) Hanescu, (Q) Wawrinka vs. Fernando "Hot Sauce" Verdasco, (15) Stepanek vs. Juan Ignacio "The Spitting Snake" Chela, (Q) Juan "The Principality" Monaco vs. (11) Canas in an all-Argentine, Dominik "The Dominator" Hrbaty vs. (Q) Julien "United Colors of" Benneteau, (12) Ljubicic vs. Grosjean, (16) T.Johansson vs. Ferrer, Luis "Me So" Horna vs. (WC) Seppi, and (WC) Sanguinetti vs. Fabrice "The Original Wizard" Santoro.

Clijsters Romps, Zvonareva Leads Exiting Seeds at WTA Berlin

While Kim Clijsters can't stop voicing her dislike for the claycourts, you could never judge it by her play, with the former No. 1-ranked Belgian blowing out Ukrainian qualifier Yuliana Fedak 6-1, 6-0 Tuesday at the WTA stop in Berlin.

"Everything felt pretty good...I felt like I was going for a lot of winners," said Clijsters, who reiterated her dislike for the dirt. "It is tough for me to play good tennis like on other surfaces and that is challenging."

In addition to struggling with the "Spanish Slide" on the red dirt, the No. 11-seeded Clijsters says generating more topspin and more of her own pace on the clay puts additional stress on her surgically-repaired wrist.

Other seeded winners on the day were (6) Nadia Petrova (d. Koukalova), (10) Elena Likhovtseva (d. Klosel), and (13) Jelena Jankovic (d. Obziler).

Three seeds were booted Tuesday in (5) Vera Zvonareva (l. to Peschke, bagel in the second), (9) Nathalie Dechy (l. to Randriantefy), and (15) Daniela Hantuchova (l. to Dulko).

Dinara Safina, the unseeded little sister of Australian Open winner Marat Safin, led the youth movement with a straight-set win over another teen, Serbian pin-up girl Ana Ivanovic. Other unseeded winners were China's Shuai Peng (d. Vento-Kabchi), Germany's Julia Schruff (d. Chladkova from a set down), American Meghann Shaughnessy (d. Prusova from a set down, 7-6 in the third), Israel's Ana Smashnova (d. Kostanic), and Russian Maria Kirilenko (d. Zuluaga).

Italy's Virginie Razzano and American Jill Craybas were halted for the day by rain at one-set all, while postponed to Wednesday was (12) Justine Henin-Hardenne vs. Iveta Benesova.

Scheduled for Wednesday in Berlin are Kuznetsova vs. Maleeva, Schruff vs. Myskina, Smashnova vs. Mauresmo, Sharapova vs. Groenefeld, Henin-Hardenne vs. Benesova, Razzano vs. Craybas (to finish), Clijsters vs. Safina, Henin-Hardenne or Benesova vs. Kirilenko, Bovina vs. Daniilidou, Martinez vs. Dulko, Pierce vs. Likhovtseva, Medina Garrigues vs. Schnyder, Jankovic vs. Pennetta, and Shaughnessy vs. Randriantefy.

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