At a pre-Open tournament last week in Sydney, the Argentine-Armenian beat the American-Armenian..
By Michael Harutyunyan
ArmeniaNow sports reporter
Five tennis players of Armenian heritage entered the Australian Open, the ATP’s first Grand Slam of the new season, in Melbourne.
Two remain in singles competition: Andre Agassi (USA, seeded 4) defeated Tomas Enqvist (Sweden) 6-0, 6-3, 6-3 to advance to Round of 16. David Nalbandian (Argentina, 8) will get his chance to advance tomorrow when he meets Wayne Ferreira.
All three in the men’s division men advanced to the second round.
Agassi (United States, seeded 4) defeated Todd Larkham (Australia) 6-1, 6-3, 6-4; Nalbandian defeated Ricardo Mello (Brazil) 6-2, 6-1, 6-4; and Sargis Sargsyan (Armenia, unseeded) defeated Jonas Bjorkman (Sweden, 25) 6-2, 6-3, 6-1.
Agassi (6-0, 6-2, 6-4 over Tomas Berdych of Czech Republic) and Nalbandian (6-1, 6-0, 6-3 over Florian Mayer of Germany) advanced to the third round.
Sargsyan, however, was knocked out by Todd Reid (Australia) 3-6, 4-6, 6-4, 7(8)-6(6), 4-6. Sargsyan earned $28,000 and 7 race points. (Sargsyan teamed with Karsten Braasch of Germany for a Men’s Doubles second-round victory Friday).
In the women’s division, Marie-Gayane Mikaelian (unseeded) of Switzerland suffered 0-6, 1-4 /retired/ defeat in the first round against Tatiana Golovin of France (unseeded).
Magdalena Maleeva (Bulgaria, whose mother is Armenian) lost a second round match to Petra Mandula of Hungary, 7(8)-6(6), 2-6, 3-6. Maleeva is still alive in third round of Women’s Doubles, with her partner Conchita Martinez of Spain.
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