Round two begins in pro tennis event.Byline: PAULA LINCOLN The Register-Guard Seven of the top eight seeded players will vie with 11 other players for four berths into Tuesday's main draw when the second round of qualifying for the BMW BMW in full Bayerische Motoren Werke AG German automaker. Founded as an aircraft engine manufacturer in 1916, the company assumed the name Bayerische Motoren Werke and became known for its high-speed motorcycles in the 1920s. of Eugene USTA USTA United States Tennis Association USTA United States Telecom Association USTA United States Trotting Association USTA United States Telephone Association USTA United States Twirling Association USTA United States Trademark Association Women's Challenger Professional Tennis Tournament begins at 10 a.m. today at Eugene Swim & Tennis Club. Top seeds Svetlana Krivencheva of Bulgaria and Tiffany Dabek of Bradenton, Fla., had first-round byes in the $50,000 tournament and will compete in today's round of 16. Krivencheva will play Kristen Schlukebir of Atlanta, and Dabek will face Brazil's Maria Fernanda Alves Fernanda Alves of Portugal became the first delegate from her country to win any major beauty pageant title. She won Miss International in 1996 in Kanazawa, Japan. Fernanda participated in several pageants, always achieving one of the top three positions. . Both matches are scheduled for 11:30 a.m. Schlukebir, who was a semifinalist at a $50,000 event in Fresno, Calif., and a finalist at a $10,000 tournament in Evansville, Ind. last year, beat Eugene teaching pro Diana D'Audney 6-1, 6-0 in Sunday's opening round. No. 3 seed Jana Nejedly, 28, of Canada got past Salome Devidze of Georgia 6-2, 6-0. She will face Germany's Christian Fitz in today's second round. Nejedly is one of three Canadian players returning to the Eugene Swim & Tennis Club after competing here in junior tournaments. Nejedly has been ranked as high as No. 64 in the world and was a member of Canada's 1996 Olympic team. She won three qualifying matches before reaching the third round of the 2001 U.S. Open The term U.S. Open is applied to "open" United States national championships in a particular sport, in which anybody, amateur or professional, American or non-American may compete. These include:
No. 8 seed Renata Kolbovic Renata Kolbovic (born July 30, 1976 in Brno) is a former tennis player, who was born in Czechoslovakia but competed for Canada. She had a professional career from 1996 to 2002. , 26, of Canada beat Ayssa Cohen cohen or kohen (Hebrew: “priest”) Jewish priest descended from Zadok (a descendant of Aaron), priest at the First Temple of Jerusalem. The biblical priesthood was hereditary and male. 6-1, 6-3 to advance to the second round and a date with Ally Baker of Boca Raton, Fla. Kolbovic has played in the Canadian Open and has been ranked as high as 159 in the world. The 16-year-old Baker, who turned pro in August, is currently the No. 1-ranked junior player in the U.S. She has a WTA WTA Washington Trails Association WTA Women's Tennis Association WTA World Transhumanist Association WTA Willingness to Accept WTA Winner-Take-All WTA Winner Takes All WTA World Toilet Association (Singapore) ranking of 305 and was a quarterfinalist in the junior division of the U.S. Open. She also received a wild card into the main draw at the U.S. Open. Sonya Jeyaseelan, 26, of Canada will face No. 5 seed Adriana Barna of Germany today after beating Evgenia Subbotina of Belarus 6-3, 6-0. Jeyaseelan was ranked No. 49 at the end of 2000, dropped to 333 in 2001, and is making a comeback after brain surgery last December. Jeyaseelan pulled off the biggest upset of her career when, as a qualifier ranked No. 140, she defeated Venus Williams 6-4, 7-6 in a tournament at Amelia Island in 1999. She scored another big upset when she upset fourth-ranked and former champion Conchita Martinez to reach the third round of Wimbledon in 2000. Other career highlights include advancing to the third round of the Australian Open, the second round of the Canadian Open and, with partner Rene Simpson, defeating Monica Seles and Mirjana Lucic in the first round of the doubles competition at the 1998 U.S. Open. |
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